Alan Sisto
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 7 Jul
Alan Sisto’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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In the Lord of the Rings, though, our introduction to them is a bit different.
And in fact, they're never called the druidine in that book.
The closest we get is the men of Druidon Forest.
That's right.
In the nomenclature, Tolkien explains that this word, quote, represents modernized the Rohan word for old men of the woods.
It is not a purely invented word.
The supposed genuine Rohan word was wasa, plural wasan, which if it had survived into modern English would be wozes.
It would have been better to call the wild men woodwoses, for that actually occurs in Old English, woodawasa, glossing faunus, satyrus, savage men, evil creatures.
And that's Tolkien's explanation in the nomenclature.
He goes on to say that this word woodawasa became woodoses.
which he says, quote, was often corrupted to wood houses and survives in heraldry since the wood house equals a wild hairy man clad in leaves common as a supporter to arms.
Now we know what your coat of arms needs to include.
Oh, as a wild hairy man clad in leaves.
I mean, I fit that description to a T. Folks, you can't see him and it's probably a good thing, but he is currently clad in leaves.
And incredibly hairy arms.
Yeah.
Tolkien explains more in the nomenclature, and I love how he does this, right?
This is just a guide that he wrote for translators, so they would know what words to translate and what words to leave in.
So he explains there the origin of this idea, that is the idea of the wild man as the wood woes, was no doubt the actual existence of wild folk, remnants of former peoples driven out by invaders or of outlaws living a debased and savage life in forests and mountains.
which, as Tolkien says, explains the use of wasa, a word that Tolkien says, quote, meant originally a forlorn or abandoned person.
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