Editing Wild man (section)

==Modern literary representations==
The term ''wood-woses'' or simply ''Woses'' is used by [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] to describe a fictional race of wild men, the [[Drúedain]], in his books on [[Middle-earth]]. According to Tolkien's [[legendarium]], other men, including the [[Rohirrim]], mistook the Drúedain for [[Goblin (Middle-earth)|goblins]] or other wood-creatures and referred to them as Púkel-men (Goblin-men). He allows the fictional possibility that his Drúedain were the "actual" origin of the wild men of later traditional folklore.<ref name="Shippey 2005">{{cite book |last=Shippey |first=Tom |author-link=Tom Shippey |title=The Road to Middle-Earth |date=2005 |edition=Third |orig-year=1982 |publisher=HarperCollins |isbn=978-0261102750 |pages=74, 149}}</ref><ref name="The Ride of the Rohirrim" group=T>[[J. R. R. Tolkien|Tolkien, J. R. R.]], ''[[The Return of the King]]'', Book 5, ch. 5, "The Ride of the Rohirrim".</ref> 

British poet [[Ted Hughes]] used the form ''wodwo'' as the title of a poem and a 1967 volume of his collected works.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ann.skea.com/timeline.htm|title=Ted Hughes: Timeline|access-date=2009-05-21 }}</ref>

The fictional character [[Tarzan]] from [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]' 1912 novel ''[[Tarzan of the Apes]]'' has been described as a modern version of the wild man archetype.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Wild Men in the Middle Ages|url=https://archive.org/details/wildmeninmiddlea00bern|url-access=registration|last=Bernheimer|first=Richard|publisher=Harvard University Press|year=1952|isbn=9780674734234|location=Cambridge|pages=[https://archive.org/details/wildmeninmiddlea00bern/page/3 3]}}</ref>