One of the strange practices spoken of was that many of their warriors were women, though few of these went abroad to fight in the great battles. This custom was evidently ancient;(50) for their chieftainess Haleth had been a renowned amazon with a picked bodyguard of women. At this point a heading is pencilled on the typescript: m The Druedain (Pukel-men); after this there are no further divisions with sub-titles inserted. Together with the concluding paragraph of section II printed above, the account of the Druedain that now follows is given in Unfinished Tales, pp. 377-82, concluding with the story called The Faithful Stone; and there is no need to repeat this here.(51) At the end of the story is a passage contrasting Drugs and Hobbits, which since it was given in curtailed form in Unfinished Tales (p. 382) is printed here in full; the present text then continues to the end, or rather abandonment, of the essay. This long account of the Druedain has been given, because it throws some light on the Wild Men still surviving at the time of the War of the Ring in the eastern end of the White Mountains, and on Merry's recognition of them as living forms of the carved Pukel-men of Dun Harrow.
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