- 12.017 and a more fevered shaking was
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Fern
- 06.072 Some stacked fern
- 06.077 Burn, burn tree and fern!
Fend
- 01.068 and found Thorin with his feet on the fender smoking a pipe.
- 01.088 in the fender,
- 08.021 and with a piece of stick fended off the little black boat
- 09.068 where other elves stood to fend them off with poles,
Feint
- 17.048 to make a feint of resistance,
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.
Fawn
- 08.033 and fawns as snowy white as the hart had been dark.
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.
Fasten
- 01.017 that fastened themselves
- 01.114 and he fastened it upon a fine chain
- 08.017 they fastened one of the large iron hooks
- 08.058 and there were torches fastened
- 16.016 fastened his rope,
- 17.054 or fastened vampire-like on the stricken.
Fascinate
Although no longer associated with magic, “fascinate” comes from a Latin root meaning a spell or witchcraft. Specifically, “fascinate” denotes removal of the ability to resist. I heartily recommend Dr. Tom Shippey’s thoughts on riddles and the dance they weave between truth, meaning, and obfuscation. I might need to create our own word – legerdelangue, the sleight-of-words equivalent to legerdemain. And now we know more about the weakness of dragons.
- 12.058 No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk
“fascinate, v.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2015. Web. 27 July 2015.
Shippey, T. A. “Approaches to Truth in Old English Poetry”. University of Leeds Review 25. 1982. PDF of reprint.
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.
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