My goodness, will you look at this! “Speak” only toddles along and then picks up at Chapter 10!

• 1.089 Let Thorin speak!’
• 1.122 not to speak of the most marvellous
• 1.141 not to speak of getting inside the door?
• 2.028 Then they came to lands where people spoke strangely,
• 2.084 who thought it was Bert that had spoken.
• 2.106 William never spoke
• 4.003 they had spoken gaily of the passage of the mountains,
• 5.018 (who always spoke to himself through never having anyone else to speak to).
• 5.018 (who always spoke to himself through never having anyone else to speak to).
• 6.06 He spoke to them
• 6.082 to whom Gandalf had now spoken.
• 7.018 The Somebody I spoke of –
• 7.095 They spoke most of gold
• 8.133 with the old quarrel I have spoken of.
• 9.031 Gandalf spoke true,
• 10.007 he heard the elves speak of
• 10.011 not to speak of a greater allowance of air.
• 10.025 who return at last to our own as spoken of old.
• 10.033 I speak to the Master
• 10.033 spoken of old.
• 10.038 and spoke confidently of the sudden death of the dragon
• 10.039 and even after that his speeches at banquets were limited to
• 10.042 So he spoke to the Master
• 10.044 spoken of old.
• 11.004 and blackened stumps to speak of ones long vanished.
• 11.015 they spoke fragments of broken spells of opening,
• 11.019 They spoke low
• 12.001 until at last Thorin spoke:
• 12.044 Then Smaug spoke.
• 12.064 But plucking up courage he spoke again.
• 13.001 and little they spoke.
• 13.002 Thorin spoke:
• 13.033 They spoke aloud,
• 13.034 but he spoke of it yet to no one.
• 13.041 You speak the truth!’
• 13.064 The bridge that Balin had spoken of
• 14.033 and spoke very loud
• 14.036 At length he spoke again:
• 14.038 Men spoke of the recompense for all their harm
• 15.005 but I cannot follow the speech of such birds,
• 15.02 I have spoken.’
• 15.048 Is not that a matter of which we may speak?
• 15.048 I would speak for him
• 15.049 and grimly spoken;
• 15.053 and if you would speak with me again,
• 15.056 we speak unto Thorin Thrain’s son Oakenshield,
• 16.001 and now Thorin spoke
• 16.003 All the same he did not speak of it,
• 16.024 and then you will let me speak to your chiefs
• 17.009 No one spoke for a long while.
• 17.019 and spoke over the wall.
• 18.007 What voice is it that speaks among the stones?’
• 19.005 Gandalf it was who spoke,