Whether for hobbits, Big People, or prairie dogs, this Germanic word, probably borrowed from Celtic origins, originally meant there was a wall around it.

• 1.116 the old town
• 1.122 They built the merry town of Dale there
• 3.040 and he grieved to remember the ruin of the town of Dale
• 5.055 Slays king, ruins town,
• 9.019 It seemed a town of Men still throve there,
• 10.007 was the strange town
• 10.007 was built a busy wooden town,
• 10.007 not a town of elves but of Men,
• 10.007 and was carted past the falls to their town;
• 10.007 The rotting piles of a greater town could still be seen
• 10.009 boats rowed out from the piles of the town,
• 10.018 in the town openly doubted the existence
• 10.020 I wish to see the Master of your town!’
• 10.028 and into the market-place of the town.
• 10.030 The Master of the town sprang from his great chair.
• 10.033 Nor is this town
• 10.033 of the town
• 10.034 like fire through all the town.
• 10.036 in the town
• 10.037 were brought into the town
• 10.041 and wiser than the men of the town,
• 10.042 in the town
• 11.001 but none of the men of the town would stay with them
• 11.007 in that town.’
• 12.067 in the town by the shore
• 13.055 in front of the ruined town.
• 14.002 From their town the Lonely Mountain
• 14.011 in the town was filled with water,
• 14.013 Roaring he swept back over the town.
• 14.014 seeking only to set their town ablaze.
• 14.016 Soon all the town would be deserted
• 14.024 Full on the town he fell.
• 14.025 lamenting their lost town
• 14.025 three quarters of the people of the town
• 14.026 who had left the town so soon,
• 14.031 and hope to rebuild our town,
• 14.033 in the roll of the benefactors of our town;
• 14.038 who had escaped uninjured from the ruin of the town;
• 14.042 and looked on the ruins of the town.
• 14.043 they began the planning of a new town,
• 14.043 amid the ruined piles of the old town.
• 14.044 from the ruin of the town
• 15.019 and Smaug has destroyed their town.
• 15.048 and towns,
• 19.043 Bard had rebuilt the town