- 12.021 His fire belched forth,
Author: adindragonsbloom
Before
It’s an uncommon use of a common word! It will carry the “10K” tag until such time as I add the common uses of “before”. It’s not terribly likely that I will, as Blackwelder kept prepositions out of this Tolkien Thesaurus.
- 02.067 “as I’ve said afore this evening.”
Beeswax
- 07.094 and on the table were two tall red beeswax candles.
Beer-mug
- 01.036 to the cellar to fill a pint beer-mug,
Given that Hobbits are much smaller than adult men and women, I am amused that their beer-mugs are larger than a standard bottle of beer in my experience.
This is a two-word word in its OED headword, but hyphenated in some of the examples.
“beer, n.1.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2017. Web. 5 September 2017.
Beer-barrels
- 01.084 and hide behind the beer-barrels
Probably not the best place to hide as a dwarf who had gone to the cellar is most likely to be looking to fill the pitcher. “Beer-barrels” is a hyphenated word which is properly a two-words in the OED under “beer”, but hyphenated straightforwardly under “barrel”.
“beer, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, March 2015. Web. 1 Juy 2015.
“barrel, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2017. Web. 5 September 2017.
Beech-log
Beech is any one of about a dozen species in the genus Fagaceae.
Obviously this means “logs of beech wood”, but “beech-log” is not in OED, nor is “beech log” one of those two-word words so stuck together that they get their own entry. This hyphenated form is JRRT original.
- 02.043 a very large fire of beech-logs.
Beech
- 03.012 The trees changed to beech
- 08.037 they came to a part where most of the trees were beeches.
- 08.132 The beeches were their favourite trees.
- 09.003 There the great beeches came right down to the bank,
Bee-pastures
- 07.028 We are on the edge of his bee-pastures.’
No such word-concept in OED, I declare this a JRRT original.
Bee-autiful
It’s a common word – stretched out and turned into a sound word! Since it’s used uncommonly, I will tag it 10K for now. It may be that I add the common uses of “Beautiful” later – could be in a separate entry, might not be!
- 08.087 after a bee-autiful sleep.
Bear-track
No entry at all in OED: obviously “track” is in there, and can follow any sort of animal name, and in that configuration is not one word-concept as JRRT uses it here.
- 07.117 I have been picking out bear-tracks,’
Photo from Wikipedia Commons: “Animal Tracks”.
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