Eat

We begin in paragraph 01.001.  Please notice that “eats” in 05.028 is a sound-play use, “We eats it”, with Gollum adding an S where it’s not usually heard.

  • 01.001 with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat:
  • 01.051 for the late-comers to eat
  • 01.060 The dwarves ate
  • 01.060 and ate,
  • 01.123 to eat,
  • 02.032 He had eaten most,
  • 02.046 just to be et by you and Bert.
  • 02.046 You’ve et a village
  • 02.081 and eat them later –
  • 02.116 and looked fit to eat,
  • 03.001 and their horses had more to eat than they had;
  • 03.028 “Mind Bilbo doesn’t eat all the cakes!”
  • 04.024 For goblins eat horses
  • 05.022 whether he was good to eat,
  • 05.028 we eats it,
  • 05.029 that could save him from being eaten.
  • 05.031 the idea of eating was rather on his mind.
  • 05.034 who was still thinking uncomfortably about eating.
  • 05.047 and have not the danger of being eaten to disturb your thinking.
  • 06.039 for something to eat;
  • 06.039 and he ate three wild strawberries that he found on its bank,
  • 06.056 He’ll be eaten if we don’t do something,’
  • 06.068 for they did not eat such creatures)
  • 06.074 fry them, boil them and eat them hot?
  • 06.088 with next to nothing to eat,
  • 06.094 Bilbo was not going to be eaten after all.
  • 07.023 He does not eat them;
  • 07.023 neither does he hunt or eat wild animals.
  • 07.024 and then Bilbo felt so hungry that he would have eaten acorns,
  • 07.060 Killed, eaten, gone home?’
  • 07.090 Let’s have something to eat!’
  • 07.094 All the time they ate,
  • 07.112 moving off to find something to eat as quick as he could.
  • 07.116 he had eaten two whole loaves
  • 07.121 Not eaten up by Wargs or goblins or wicked bears yet I see’ ;
  • 07.126 and they were good to eat,
  • 07.126 will be wholesome to eat or to drink.
  • 07.129 Soon after midday they ate with Beorn for the last time,
  • 08.036 there was practically nothing left to eat or to drink.
  • 08.046 That night they ate their very last scraps
  • 08.048 When he heard that there was nothing to eat,
  • 08.048 and I could not count or describe the things there were to eat
  • 08.057 all the good things that were being eaten,
  • 08.058 they were eating
  • 08.083 Aye, they’ll make fine eating,
  • 08.104 to see which was the juiciest to eat.
  • 08.110 We will eat you
  • 08.125 if there had been anything to eat.
  • 09.061 in which it had eaten out a wide bay.
  • 10.014 I could eat anything
  • 12.060 Let me tell you I ate six ponies last night
  • 12.060 and eat all the others before long.
  • 12.062 that I can eat a dwarf-ridden pony
  • 12.072 and I have eaten his people like a wolf among sheep,
  • 13.001 Little they ate
  • 13.010 and then eat me,
  • 15.058 You may eat that,
  • 18.048 and eaten much of your bread.

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