Yet is even older than up, adjective and adverb… and in The Hobbit, five out of 81 uses are poetical!

• 1.001 nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole
• 1.100 You may (possibly) all live to thank me yet.
• 2.001 and yet in a way he could not help feeling
• 2.048 and yet –
• 2.048 and yet somehow he could not go straight back
• 2.073 “There’s more to come yet,” said Tom,
• 3.007 but they had not got there yet,
• 3.028 “He is too fat to get through key-holes yet!”
• 3.031 Yet there is little to tell about their stay.
• 5.005 and yet not far enough.’
• 5.026 And yet never grows?
• 5.040 Yet golden treasure inside is hid,
• 5.095 No, not yet,
• 5.128 or tried to yet.
• 6.064 and had not yet escaped at all.
• 6.099 (Dwarves have never taken to matches even yet.)
• 7.024 if any had been ripe enough yet to have fallen to the ground.
• 7.076 that haven’t yet come out of their boxes?’
• 7.080 or else you haven’t told me yet
• 7.081 Oin and Gloin yet.
• 7.106 Yet in the night he woke:
• 7.121 Not eaten up by Wargs or goblins or wicked bears yet I see’ ;
• 7.126 The time is not yet come for nuts
• 8.006 Although it was not yet very cold,
• 8.035 Yet if they had known more about it
• 8.037 Yet the light only showed them
• 8.133 since he had not yet as great a treasure as other elf-lords of old.
• 9.011 yet he did not dare to march among them because of his shadow
• 9.015 not yet,
• 10.012 that they could hardly yet realize their release
• 11.005 but they dared not climb it yet,
• 11.014 yet they did not doubt that they had found the door at last.
• 11.021 and yet they would not give it up
• 12.015 had never yet come home to him.
• 12.017 not yet –
• 12.027 they had been through yet.
• 12.033 and that it was no good giving up their quest yet.
• 12.080 You aren’t nearly through this adventure yet,’
• 12.089 and a blessing yet
• 13.017 and join him yet.
• 13.019 and yet,
• 13.021 and that trouble would yet come of it.
• 13.034 but he spoke of it yet to no one.
• 13.040 This treasure is not yet won back.
• 13.040 We are not looking for gold yet,
• 13.043 and climbed yet more stairs,
• 13.043 and yet more stairs again.
• 13.046 As they came through yet more doors
• 14.025 they had not yet realized.
• 15.046 We are not yet foes,
• 15.046 yet now that we are met
• 15.048 and I am yet the servant of their Master.
• 15.049 yet he had an eye for many another wonderful thing
• 16.010 yet he was ever a dwarf with a stiff neck.’
• 17.024 But things may change yet.’
• 17.034 and by that time yet more dwarves might come,
• 17.034 and yet more,
• 17.043 There is yet time for council.
• 17.045 Yet this would be perilous,
• 17.047 Let us take our places while there is yet time!’
• 17.054 and yet giving slowly back;
• 17.059 that should have lived yet long ages merrily
• 17.062 dark shapes small yet majestic against the distant glow.
• 17.065 though as yet nothing could be seen
• 18.002 At any rate I am not yet one of the fallen heroes;
• 18.018 Yet I am glad that I have shared
• 18.033 Yet a fourteenth share of all the silver and gold,
• 18.035 Yet even though you were willing
• 18.042 yet many were glad,
• 18.044 while the world is yet young!
• 18.053 snow yet unmelted was gleaming pale.
• 19.002 And leaves are yet swinging,
• 19.002 And elves are yet singing
• 19.005 when a part of the story which he did not yet know came in.
• 19.007 Yet I wish he were banished from the world!’
• 19.009 and yet more tales,
• 19.015 Yet I thank you.’
• 19.016 yet we thank you,’
• 19.018 Yet even that place could not long delay him now,
• 19.021 There is a long road yet,’ said Gandalf.
• 19.031 Yet feet that wandering have gone