The Drúedain are a fictional race of Men, living in the Drúadan Forest, in the Middle-earth legendarium created by J. R. R. Tolkien. They were counted among the Edain who made their way into Beleriand in the First Age, and were friendly to the Elves. In The Lord of the Rings, they assist the Riders of Rohan to avoid ambush on the way to the Battle of the Pelennor Fields.
The Drúedain are based on the mythological woodwoses, the wild men of the woods of Britain and Europe; the Riders of Rohan indeed call them woses. Tolkien also used the form Drûg, with a regular English plural Drûgs.
The word used for the Drúedain by the Rohirrim during the Third Age is represented by Tolkien as Púkel-men. Ryan adds that the word survives in English placenames such as Puckshot in Surrey, Pock Field in Cumberland, Puxton, Puckeridge, Pokesdown, Pockford, Pucknall, and perhaps Pucklechurch. Ryan suggests that the Púkel-men may derive from a combination of "Proto-Celts, Druid-figures, or ... roadside fertility deities". Ryan notes Christopher Tolkien's statement that the name Púkel-men is "also used as a general equivalent to Drúedain".