- 07.045 in a wide hall with a fire-place
- The samples in OED include hyphen, space, and single word.
“fireplace, n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/70555. Accessed 13 September 2017.
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Fir-trees
- 06.074 Fifteen birds in five fir-trees,
- 07.084 in five fir-trees… .’
Attested in OED with either a hyphen or a space.
“ˈfir-tree, n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/70633. Accessed 13 September 2017.
Figure-eight
- 07.116 and joining into figure-eights,
Sometimes “figure-of-eight”. This must mean that the numeral for the concept of eight was shaped like 8, since that’s the only logical shape described here.
“eight, adj. and n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/59981. Accessed 13 September 2017.
Feather-bed
- 06.100 more soundly than ever he had done on his feather-bed
A word attested in OED.
“ˈfeather-ˈbed, n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/68813. Accessed 13 September 2017.
Fat-bodied
- 08.104 only to meet an old slow wicked fat-bodied spider
This word is not found in the OED, a JRRT original.
Far-off
- 01.117 and dragons are comfortably far-off
A properly attested word.
“far-off, adj.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/68281. Accessed 13 September 2017.
Far-distant
- 08.074 of his far-distant hobbit-hole
A properly attested OED word.
“far, adv.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/68132. Accessed 13 September 2017.
Fair-sized
- 02.047 there were three fair-sized trolls at hand
What would you say is a fair size for a troll? 200kg? 300?
Attested in OED.
“sized, adj.1.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/180593. Accessed 13 September 2017.
Elvish-looking
Elvish is found in the OED, and is attested as a combining form, but never as “elvish-looking”.
- 08.058 elvish-looking folk,
“elvish, adj.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/60664. Accessed 13 September 2017.
Elven-harp
Although “elven” is given in OED as
Comb. (referring to a kind of imaginary being in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien).
of the examples provided, this is not one.
- 15.033 of elven-harps
“ˈelven, n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/60661. Accessed 13 September 2017.
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