I believe that the color silver meant a great deal to Tolkien – he often used it in compounds: silver-grey, silver-hafted, silver-steel. Most famously, it is used in clothing – whether with green or white, I posit that anyone clothed in silver in the stories is to be admired. Well, then. A project for my eighties when everything else is done?

• 1.007 a silver scarf
• 1.038 silver belts,
• 1.046 and silver belts to join the others.
• 1.050 and also a sky-blue one with a long silver tassel.
• 1.076 On silver necklaces they strung
• 1.113 made of silver.
• 3.040 in a broad silver crescent.
• 3.042 and wrote them with silver pens,
• 7.013 and silver
• 7.095 and silver
• 7.095 there were no things of gold or silver
• 8.133 and silver,
• 8.133 especially for silver
• 10.010 with its tarnished silver tassel.
• 10.035 The lord of silver fountains
• 12.013 and silver red-stained
• 12.096 and silvered
• 12.096 for it was wrought of pure silver
• 12.097 it shone like silver
• 13.034 strung with silver they took them
• 14.008 his silver like a fountain,
• 14.021 and silvered his great wings.
• 15.039 On silver necklaces they strung
• 17.019 in silver
• 17.021 and silver?’
• 17.034 and silver
• 18.017 and silver,
• 18.033 Yet a fourteenth share of all the silver and gold,
• 18.037 one filled with silver,
• 18.046 of silver and pearls
• 19.003 Than silver in treasure;
• 19.012 The river is silver, the shadows are fleeting;
• 19.037 Many of his silver spoons mysteriously disappeared
• 19.039 and silver was largely spent