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Title: Ghan Buri Ghan
Submitted By: k
Date: February 11, 2003
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    elvenprincess
    March 19, 2003

    what is it? a dwarf? since i havent finished the silmarillion yet, i suppose it is in there>

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    Nerwin_Artanis
    April 2, 2003

    Nono, that’s Treebeard! Look at the wood patterns on his face!

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    Eruresto
    April 19, 2003

    I think it’s Ghan-Buri-Ghan like the title says

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    k
    April 21, 2003

    and the cookie goes to eru!! yes its ghan buri ghan, yes it really is him, john howe says thats who it is

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    k
    April 21, 2003

    and so im not going to argue that one!

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    lotr4swgs
    May 13, 2003

    he was in ROTK, right?

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    Melpomene
    May 13, 2003

    Ghan-Buri-Ghan is one of my favourite characters. Wild-men are really cool!

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    Naurmaethor
    September 26, 2003

    Yup he was in ROTK

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    RangerAragorn
    September 27, 2003

    he does look alot like a dwarf, if i had no other reference thats what i would guess the picture to be!

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    Redicule
    September 28, 2003

    i don’t know who Ghan-Buri-Ghan is. tell me, please

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    Eronlover
    September 30, 2003

    Ghan-Buri-Ghan is a man that leads the Rohirrim to Minas Tirith in Gondor in ROTK. Personally I think he looks

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    Eronlover
    September 30, 2003

    a little too dwarfish. I mean, Tolkien has so few men in his books, they need to be more mannish! At first I

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    Eronlover
    September 30, 2003

    thought it was Gimli! That would be scary.

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    Lady~Silivren
    October 3, 2003

    Scary…

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    k
    October 4, 2003

    wild men are supposed to be short and stumpy kind of people. not exactely mannish like gondor and rohan men

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    Adufen
    October 9, 2003

    exactly k.it took me awhile to remember who he was though.nice picture!

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    Sailacel_Erunis
    October 14, 2003

    Hm. NOt exactly like I pictured him, but an accurate depiction nonetheless!

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    Chrystille
    October 16, 2003

    Hmmm… not the way I thought he would look like, but we’ll see, won’t we. 🙂

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    orlandolover
    November 8, 2003

    hes cute!!!

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    Anwamian
    November 26, 2003

    He’s very nice, but I didn’t think him like that. ><

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    IsildursHeir
    January 5, 2004

    very nice, though i did think that he would be more dwarvish looking than entish

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    jo
    January 23, 2004

    He does look entish, I imagined him to be kinda like a caveman (?!)

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    Orodruin
    January 28, 2004

    If he was in the movie, I think PJ should have played him…

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    Frodo_Baggins_forever
    February 8, 2004

    hehe I thought it was an ent… It looks like an ent+dwarf than a wild man

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    Lady_Eowyn_Bloom
    February 8, 2004

    Are you sure that’s a wild man or a disformed ent?!

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    Auroora
    February 25, 2004

    That guy looks just like a staalo. Staalo is a kind of troll from the sámi (or lapish) mytology. Wery cool!

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    Rogzilla
    March 4, 2004

    i think if you take a lot of time and look, you will understand the coloring…also remember to refer to the

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    Rogzilla
    March 4, 2004

    Pikomen(I cant remember right now but the statues up to the Haunted Mounted)

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    checkpoint
    March 5, 2004

    i like it very much. though i didn’t imagine it looking like this.

  30. Anonymous
    March 19, 2004

    which book is he in?

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    The_Lovely_Laurewen
    March 30, 2004

    He’s in RotK. Cool guy.

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    RosieTheCarnivorouseBeast
    April 1, 2004

    Boy am i gald they didn’t do a whole body pic. Ghan Buri Ghan only wore a grass skirt *shudder*

  33. Anonymous
    April 9, 2004

    I thought he was tree beard at first!! LOL!

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    Dracawyn
    April 10, 2004

    Hmmmm… well i… uh….. hmmmmmm…. so THAT’s what wildmen look like…. i uhhhh…. no comment…

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    Dracawyn
    April 11, 2004

    hmmmm… not how i imagined him, that’s all i’ll say

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    Daloser44
    April 15, 2004

    what is that?! I thought he was human!

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    kelexie
    April 16, 2004

    Ah the Ghan-Buri-Ghan, they are so…ummm…fascinating…in a way. hmmm 0_o

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    sairina_star
    April 30, 2004

    wow!

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    Sharkey
    May 16, 2004

    nah. too treeish, if ya ask me

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    SarumanofManyColors
    June 8, 2004

    I agree with Sharkey (kinda ironic, considering site names, huh?).

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    kormakolindo
    July 1, 2004

    haha yes… i wonder if the artist knew people would argue so much over his work.

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    Gandalf_is_cool__________
    July 13, 2004

    is this guy staring at the moss on the tree or wat man

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    Galadoreen
    July 15, 2004

    They describe these in the Unfinished Tales. COOL!!!!!

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    NeatNicki
    August 13, 2004

    A litle hairier than what I pictured Wild Men being…

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    ten_armed_fredrick
    October 30, 2004

    Seem to be the same backgound as the one Faramir had. Marvelous.

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    pyromaniac
    October 31, 2004

    not exactly as I saw Ghan-Buri-Ghan i thought he had a red fuzzy beard

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    greenleafgreenleaf
    November 14, 2004

    i think i have to agree with Lady Eowyn Bloom. it looks more like a deformed ent. in a cool way, but i-

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    greenleafgreenleaf
    November 14, 2004

    only just worked out he’s not a tree. probably just the colouring.

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    The_seventh_Ringbearer
    November 25, 2004

    Looks more like an early sketch for Treebeard.

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    LissaJane
    December 22, 2004

    I was thinking some sort of tree gnome or something. either way it’s cute!

  51. ash_nazg4321
    March 9, 2005

    it’s one of the wild men that helps out the Rohirrim in the battle of Pelennor Fields. it’s in the book.

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    ElvenEars
    March 12, 2005

    funny looking wild man I rember him in the book I think

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    BlueAngel116
    April 2, 2005

    Hmmm, I think it should look a bit more human-like.

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    Innas
    May 13, 2005

    I agree with you, BlueAngel116

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    Ireth_Telrunya
    May 17, 2005

    Eeeee! What IS it???????

  56. Anonymous
    May 22, 2005

    This fits the description in the book, but I see him as looking more human.

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    hobbitish_elf
    July 23, 2005

    it looks like he has little green cat ears. while i did think he was really hairy and kinda stumpy this…

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    hobbitish_elf
    July 23, 2005

    …was not what i pictured. but to each his or her own!

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    elvenprincessofmirkwood
    August 7, 2005

    *giggles* I always liked Ghan-Buri-Ghan in the books..too bad he wasn’t in the movie.

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    tercáno_nuruva
    August 10, 2005

    thats actually really close to how i pictured him! maybe just a tad less hairy. ;-p

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    elfgurrl
    September 7, 2005

    um, sorry, not how I pictured him… 😀 pretty anyway…

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    ~ElvishSparrow~
    October 14, 2005

    Ghan-Buri-Ghan helped out the Rohirrim in ROtK, no?

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    gimli1121
    October 15, 2005

    the tattoos on his face are really cool. he does look a lot like a shorter, thicker treebeard though.

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    xxxQueen_Greenleafxxx
    November 28, 2005

    AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhh *must go see thyrapist,nightmares for 2 weeks*

  65. ash_nazg4321
    February 19, 2006

    this reminds me of the guy who introduced me to LotR…

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    arya_luver
    July 16, 2006

    Where exactly in the books is Ghen-Buri? I have his LOTR card, and this, but…

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    XRodwenNobleX
    July 29, 2006

    woooooooooowww….SWEET! =3

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    frodofan14
    December 1, 2007

    arya, he is in rotk and he helped erm someone do somthing can someone help me with this i forget!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    tolkiensgirl_ithilwen
    December 6, 2008

    ghanburigahn is the leader of the wild men in the druadan forest. he helped the good guys in the battle of

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    tolkiensgirl_ithilwen
    December 6, 2008

    pellenor by leading them thru the forest. aragorn gave them the right to live in the forest undisturbed.

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    tolkiensgirl_ithilwen
    December 6, 2008

    y does everyone ask questions about the book here? there’s an encyclopedia for that

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    Araloth_the_Random
    April 27, 2009

    It’s a pity they didn’t put the Wild Men into the movies.

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    Belegeth
    October 30, 2009

    he would be awesome in the movies, interested in how they would do the drudan speach (drudanic?) in it, lots

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    Belegeth
    October 30, 2009

    of clicks and stuff. wish they were in the movie! i imagined him more human, but small and thin Gollum-dwarf

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    Fredegar_Deepdelver2
    August 7, 2011

    He looks like dwarf-lion hybrid

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    Beren_Onehand
    August 15, 2011

    very cool and descriptive

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