Author: lfsaldenbirch

Torch

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  • 01.079 The trees like torches blazed with light.
  • 02.036 as it might be a fire or torches twinkling.
  • 04.023 and by torches along the walls,
  • 04.039 “The torches will soon be relit.”
  • 04.044 The blink of red torches could be seen
  • 04.048 in front dropped their torches
  • 04.049 they put out their torches
  • 05.087 He might even venture into places where the torches were lit
  • 06.077 Shrivel and scorch! A fizzling torch
  • 07.092 and soon came back carrying torches
  • 07.094 The light of the torches
  • 07.096 and the torches were put out,
  • 08.048 only lit with torches on the trees
  • 08.054 it seemed plain that torches
  • 08.058 and there were torches fastened
  • 08.063 and torches.
  • 08.070 hundreds of torches
  • 09.001 of many torches all round them,
  • 09.003 Bilbo had all he could do to keep up with the torches,
  • 09.003 Suddenly the torches stopped,
  • 13.017 and took the torch;
  • 13.019 from the wavering light of his torch.
  • 13.022 and the spark of his torch vanished from the sight
  • 13.023 His torch dropped head downwards
  • 13.031 Gloin lit several more torches,
  • 13.032 and a dropped torch,
  • 13.033 Each now gripped a lighted torch;
  • 13.041 and holding their torches above their heads
  • 13.043 that fled from the approach of their torches
  • 13.049 by their smoking torches flurried over them;
  • 13.049 They flung their pale torches to the ground,
  • 15.029 and torches

Torchlight

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“Torchlight” is a less-common than 10,000 word – and “torch-light” is less common than the first 100,000.  I am fascinated that both appear side by side in Chapter 9.

  • 09.003 well behind their torch-light
  • 09.005 with red torch-light,
  • 09.011 in torchlight)
  • 09.022 taking the torchlight with them
  • 13.044 and far beyond the reach of their torch-light.

Two-word word, one word, or hyphenated are all acceptable in OED.

“ˈtorch-ˌlight, n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/203510. Accessed 21 September 2017.

Trapdoor

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  • 09.018 and covered with great oaken trapdoors.
  • 09.019 Bilbo discovered the trapdoors
  • 09.020 the elves cast them through the trapdoors,
  • 09.037 The rest went into the adjoining cellar with the trapdoors.
  • 09.051 (nearly all of them had already disappeared through the dark trapdoor)
  • 09.055 Then suddenly the trapdoors fell to with a boom

Troll

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  • 02.043 But they were trolls.
  • 02.043 Obviously trolls.
  • 02.044 said one of the trolls.
  • 02.047 Yes, I am afraid trolls do behave like that,
  • 02.047 there were three fair-sized trolls at hand
  • 02.047 at this point have picked the trolls’ pockets –
  • 02.048 picking the trolls’ pockets seemed the least difficult,
  • 02.050 Trolls’ purses are the mischief,
  • 02.055 Trolls are slow
  • 02.072 Trolls simply detest the very sight of dwarves
  • 02.078 “It’s trolls!” said Bilbo from behind a tree.
  • 02.080 with three angry trolls
  • 02.081 The trolls had just decided to roast the dwarves now
  • 02.106 for trolls, as you probably know,
  • 02.107 that had kept the trolls bickering
  • 02.108 listening to the trolls making plans for roasting them
  • 02.110 that the trolls must have a cave or a hole
  • 02.111 and soon found the marks of trolls’ stony boots
  • 02.112 where the trolls had their fight.”
  • 02.113 too small for trolls,
  • 02.114 It would have made only a tiny pocket-knife for a troll,
  • 02.115 “They were not made by any troll,
  • 02.116 at what they had got from the trolls’ larder.
  • 02.125 for fear of the trolls.
  • 03.001 even with what they had got from the trolls.
  • 03.035 from the trolls’ lair,
  • 03.036 “Whence did the trolls get them,
  • 03.037 that your trolls had plundered other plunderers,
  • 04.017 even than when the troll had picked him up by his toes.
  • 04.032 the sword which came from the Trolls’ lair.
  • 05.004 the little dagger that he got from the trolls,
  • 08.054 not caring if it was trolls or goblins.
  • 12.006 in the case of the trolls
  • 19.024 also this time there were no trolls.
  • 19.025 they found the gold of the trolls,