I certainly have an axe in my tool shed!  In Chapters 1 and 7, it’s a tool for wood-splitting – as Gandalf says, in the Shire “axes are used for trees”.  I find it lovely that between the axes of the goblins and the axes in the Mountain and in the battle, Beorn’s house was a little rest – a place where his huge axe was for firewood.

• 01.117 and axes are used for trees,
• 04.025 carrying the axes
• 04.025 Hammers, axes, swords, daggers, pickaxes, tongs,
• 06.072 and axes
• 07.034 and was leaning on a large axe.
• 07.035 put down his axe
• 12.014 and axes,
• 13.035 with a silver-hafted axe
• 17.056 Thorin wielded his axe with mighty strokes,
• 18.016 and notched axe were cast upon the floor.