Author: adindragonsbloom

Beam-end

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Although the town had been water-soaked, the ends of beams catch most easily, dragon-fire having been applied to them.

  • 14.015 and wooden beam-ends

“Beam-ends” is a nautical term, the bits of wood likely to get a dunking on a vigorous beam reach.  I’m going to call this a JRRT-original way of using this term, since he is referring to the buildings of Lake-Town.

“beam, n.1.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2017. Web. 5 September 2017.

Bat

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  • 02.042 any more than fly like a bat.
  • 04.049 and with hardly any more noise than bats.
  • 05.009 except the occasional whirr of a bat by his ears,
  • 08.006 nor the huge bats,
  • 12.014 with wings folded like an immeasurable bat,
  • 13.024 Only a bat,
  • 13.032 Only a bat
  • 13.049 A whirl of bats frightened from slumber
  • 17.041 the bats are above his army
  • 17.054 while still the great bats swirled