I hope you have enjoyed today’s run through the uncommon food words of The Hobbit.  “Cold” and “chicken”  and others were among The Ten Thousand most common words, so we don’t have the entire food picture of the book.  I have tagged all the food words, and I hope to use some of the techniques of lexomics in coming months to graph the progress from the unexpected party further and further away from The Shire until it’s nothing but cram as far as the eye can see.

Will one of my fellow scholars take on the challenge of charting all of the food words?  Possibly caloric intake versus miles  hiked as documented by the fabulous Karen Wynn Fonstad?  I hope you do – and I hope our little Concordance is of great use!