“Half-” as a combining form with nouns and adjectives has its very own OED entry, which includes “half-finished”.
“half-, comb. form.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/83403. Accessed 14 September 2017.
Perhaps the strangest out of place word in the book – Gandalf escapes the goblis with a flash and a smell like gunpowder – but is there any other way to describe the smell of fireworks without saying directly that’s what Gandalf used?
A properly attested word in the OED.
“guard, n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/82132. Accessed 13 September 2017.
words that you were saying 