Bilbo utters the funniest shriek of the whole novel –

• 01.092 he began to feel a shriek coming up inside,
• 01.095 but one shriek like that
• 04.036 shrieking and skriking,
• 04.037 before the sword shrieking into the darkness.
• 04.048 and Beater!” they shrieked;
• 05.076 shrieked Gollum,
• 05.093 shrieked Gollum.
• 05.130 All at once there came a blood-curdling shriek,
• 05.132 then they’ll have heard his shrieking
• 06.068 shrieking back to their caves,
• 14.012 Amid shrieks
• 14.023 With a shriek that deafened men,
• 18.021 or driving them down shrieking