I am preparing to graph the frequencies of those words which show sound play – which we have tagged “onomatopoeia” in the word entries.  I cannot but help to include all of Gollum’s extra-sibilant utterances as well as his call-name.  Given that I’m counting the name “Gollum” in this analysis, I must use the best sound-names of the whole novel, Roäc and Carc. Their names suggest the entire Raven language and a suspicion that we readers have heard ravens talking among themselves, not making simple sounds, an idea we have encountered before.

Including those names and Gollumisms, there are 488 sound-play words in our spreadsheet of 7172 uncommon words.