Before

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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.”

Beer-mug

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  • 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

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  • 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

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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.