It’s old, it’s clean and classic, it’s formed from the negating particle ne plus ever.

• 1.003 but also because they never had any adventures
• 1.005 The chance never arrived,
• 1.017 and never came undone till ordered?
• 1.090 may the hair on his toes never fall out!
• 1.091 may never return.
• 1.092 At may never return
• 1.122 which we never bothered to grow or find for ourselves.
• 1.123 and never enjoy a brass ring of it.
• 1.124 But we have never forgotten our stolen treasure.
• 1.128 and has never been seen by you since-‘
• 1.130 and he never told me yours;
• 1.132 but he never got near the Mountain.
• 1.134 Never you mind.
• 2.001 (“but with never a thank-you” he thought);
• 2.005 you have never dusted the mantelpiece!”
• 2.019 Bilbo could never remember how he found himself outside,
• 2.028 and sang songs Bilbo had never heard before.
• 2.030 never turning round or taking any notice of the hobbit.
• 2.032 never saying if he was in the adventure
• 2.045 “Never a blinking bit of manflesh
• 2.048 He had read of a good many things he had never seen or done.
• 2.088 “or we’ll never have done.
• 2.101 “I never did.
• 2.102 “That I never did!”
• 2.106 William never spoke
• 2.106 and never move again.
• 2.126 or we shall never get anywhere!”
• 3.002 He had never seen a thing
• 3.008 with a pack on its back would never have come out again.
• 3.012 Bilbo never forgot the way they slithered
• 3.025 although he had never seen them before.
• 3.050 and never a cloud,
• 4.005 Bilbo had never seen or imagined
• 4.034 and never let them see the light again!”
• 5.008 that men have mostly never heard or have forgotten long ago.
• 5.011 and never swam out again,
• 5.012 but never a ripple did he make.
• 5.012 but he took care they never found him out.
• 5.018 (who always spoke to himself through never having anyone else to speak to).
• 5.026 And yet never grows?
• 5.046 Never thirsty, ever drinking,
• 5.046 All in mail never clinking.
• 5.047 who never had anything to do with the water if he could help it.
• 5.081 Never you mind,
• 5.096 But you never guessed my last question,
• 5.097 Never guessed!’ said Gollum.
• 5.117 never, gollum!
• 6.026 never minded explaining his cleverness
• 6.030 (even the hobbit had never forgotten the magic fireworks
• 6.080 But he never leaped.
• 6.085 Bilbo never forgot that flight,
• 6.086 and he had never liked ladders,
• 6.086 (never having had to escape from wolves before).
• 6.099 (Dwarves have never taken to matches even yet.)
• 7.009 Bilbo never saw them again –
• 7.025 Bilbo had never seen anything like them.
• 7.038 Never heard of him,’
• 7.046 as he had never seen half of them before.
• 7.056 who was never very polite.
• 7.088 He never invited people into his house,
• 7.088 and he never invited more than a couple of these to his house at a time.
• 7.147 it is a thousand to one you will never find it again
• 7.147 and never get out of Mirkwood;
• 8.006 were careful never to let their bodies show
• 8.036 they would never have managed it;
• 8.041 Poor Mr. Baggins had never had much practice
• 8.052 I hope I never wake up again.’
• 8.056 if we never got back alive from it,’
• 8.057 and never finding his friends again.
• 8.081 like a patch of midnight that had never been cleared away.
• 8.097 You’ll never catch me up your tree!
• 8.131 that never went to Faerie
• 9.001 but they never found out if they were right.
• 9.002 they never found or counted the hobbit.
• 9.011 never daring to take off his ring,
• 9.011 so he never discovered the ways out of the wood,
• 9.066 some of these are never empty.
• 10.006 Bilbo had never imagined
• 10.014 I hope I never smell the smell of apples again!’ said Fili.
• 10.040 I have never heard what happened
• 10.040 and Bilbo was careful never to become invisible.
• 10.043 He had never thought
• 11.019 and never called or sang,
• 12.015 had never yet come home to him.
• 12.020 He had never felt quite happy about it,
• 12.020 and wondered why he had never blocked it up.
• 12.021 but have never before used or wanted.
• 12.038 Never mind that for the moment!
• 12.043 He had forgotten or had never heard about
• 12.067 Had you never thought of the catch?
• 12.068 He had never bothered to wonder
• 12.068 certainly never how any part of it that might fall to his share
• 12.080 Never laugh at live dragons,
• 12.087 I had never said that
• 12.095 Bilbo wished he had never heard them,
• 12.095 when they declared that they had never thought at all
• 12.096 but they were never delivered or paid for;
• 12.096 had never been made before,
• 13.050 I never expected to be looking out of this door.
• 13.050 And I never expected to be so pleased to see the sun again,
• 14.022 You have never failed me
• 14.043 He would never again return
• 15.017 may his feathers never fall,
• 16.033 I never met such suspicious folk!
• 16.039 personally I never really felt like one –
• 17.017 Never again will I have dealings
• 17.019 and may we never meet again!’
• 18.014 Well I never!
• 18.038 May your beards never grow thin!’
• 18.038 May your memory never fade!’
• 18.049 May your shadow never grow less
• 18.051 and he was never in great danger again.
• 19.029 By caves where never sun has shone,
• 19.029 By streams that never find the sea;
• 19.037 and were never accounted for.
• 19.037 On their side they never admitted