In all three cases referring to Bard – and although he speaks in a handful of chapters, it is only in chapter 14 that we see this word describing him.

I also talk about this word in the Grim entry, since we are interested in who and what are grim in any way, but out hyphen adventure leads me to separate “Grim-voiced” into its own entry as well.  this compound word is JRRT original, not found in OED.

• 14.009 But the grim-voiced fellow ran hotfoot to the Master.
• 14.013 if it had not been for the grim-voiced man
• 14.018 grim-voiced