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Rockhewn

June 25, 2015September 20, 2017 lfsaldenbirch 10K, hyphen, JRRT, word

The entry and the examples of the word in the OED are hyphenated, with one example as two separate words.  We have here another reminder that we are reading a work in translation.

  • 13.066 into a rockhewn chamber

“rock-hewn, adj.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2015. Web. 25 June 2015.

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Rot

June 25, 2015October 25, 2015 lfsaldenbirch 10K, brief, word
  • 08.008 but it had rotted
  • 10.007 The rotting piles of a greater town could still be seen
  • 13.046 Tables were rotting there;
  • 14.043 that fell from his rotting carcase.
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Rove

June 25, 2015October 25, 2015 lfsaldenbirch 10K, brief, word
  • 11.028 some were roving about the mountain-side.
  • 12.064 Whenever Smaug’s roving eye,
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Rumble

June 25, 2015October 25, 2015 lfsaldenbirch 10K, brief, word
  • 09.050 rumbled to the dark opening
  • 12.011 mixed with a rumble as of a gigantic tom-cat purring.
  • 12.016 the rumble of his snoring changed its note.
  • 12.019 when suddenly a vast rumbling woke
  • 12.101 and rumble of Smaug’s fury.
  • 17.040 and rumbled
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Rummage

June 25, 2015October 25, 2015 lfsaldenbirch 10K, brief, word
  • 04.023 and being rummaged by goblins,
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Run

June 25, 2015October 25, 2015 lfsaldenbirch 10K, brief, word

“Run” is a common word, of course, but it gets a special notice when in Troll dialect!

  • 02.045 and the drink runnin’ short,
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Rust

June 25, 2015October 25, 2015 lfsaldenbirch 10K, brief, word
  • 19.002 Though sword shall be rusted,
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Saucer

June 25, 2015March 25, 2016 lfsaldenbirch 10K, brief, word

 

Saucer, the thing that holds the sauces, appears once in The Hobbit.  We never see “sauce”, “saucy”, “saucily”.

  • 01.025 and saucer,

“saucer, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, March 2016. Web. 25 March 2016.

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Scabbard

June 25, 2015October 26, 2015 lfsaldenbirch 10K, brief, word
  • 02.113 because of their beautiful scabbards
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Scant

June 25, 2015October 26, 2015 lfsaldenbirch 10K, brief, word
  • 02.116 Their own provisions were very scanty.
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