A common word, but so very much loved by Tolkien who bemoaned the encroachment of grey-brown smokestacks into the green countryside. Green is from roots which denote the growing and life of plants. Thank you, plants, for our oxygen.

• 1.002 like a porthole, painted green,
• 1.004 (chiefly green and yellow);
• 1.006 and more green,
• 1.008 and the grass was very green.
• 1.021 and scuttled inside his round green door,
• 1.023 on the hobbit’s beautiful green front-door.
• 1.032 he said when he caught sight of Dwalin’s green hood hanging up.
• 1.047 but a hard rat-tat on the hobbit’s beautiful green door.
• 1.050 and a pale green one;
• 1.068 Then Gandalf’s smoke-ring would go green
• 1.070 in a green cloth.
• 1.094 in the Battle of the Green Fields,
• 2.010 and shall await your respected person at the Green Dragon Inn,
• 3.008 some of them green pleasant places to look at,
• 3.012 The last green had almost faded out of the grass,
• 5.035 Saw an eye in a green face.
• 5.103 in Gollum’s eyes had become a green fire,
• 5.106 and saw Gollum’s eyes like small green lamps
• 5.127 and his eyes went green.
• 6.064 another in green.
• 7.014 and then began to march through the long green grass
• 7.116 green, blue, red, silver-grey, yellow, white;
• 8.002 in a sort of darkened green glimmer.
• 8.005 and sometimes pairs of yellow or red or green eyes
• 8.041 he was greened
• 8.042 he saw all round him a sea of dark green,
• 8.058 in green
• 8.071 green and white gems
• 8.124 At any rate here the light was greener,
• 11.004 it had been green
• 11.007 The mountain’s sides were green with woods
• 12.022 in a spout of green
• 12.091 The dragon has withered all the pleasant green,
• 12.096 green as grass,
• 14.031 to the green shores of the lake.
• 15.044 They bore with them the green banner of the Elvenking
• 18.053 and darkly green at the nearer edge
• 19.027 But the land was green
• 19.032 Look at last on meadows green