Attested in OED.
- 07.093 in rolling round drum-shaped sections of logs,
“drum, n.1.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2017. Web. 7 September 2017.
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Drowse
- 03.012 and the smell of the pine-trees made him drowsy,
- 07.095 but Beorn seemed to be growing drowsy
- 07.126 and a great drowsiness
- 08.060 and Bilbo was only just getting drowsy,
- 09.025 It must be potent wine to make a wood-elf drowsy;
- 19.005 and drowsy.
Drought
- 10.007 along the shores when the waters sank in a drought.
Droop
- 12.044 from under the drooping lid of Smaug’s left eye.
Drinking-horn
Hyphenated in the OED entry.
- 13.046 and broken drinking-horns
I am struck that they are broken drinking horns – it helps me remember that the dragon isn’t a glorious creature who looks splendid in among the treasure, but that Tolkien’s dragons in Middle-earth are malicious and covetous.
[01.123] Dragons… hardly know a good bit of work from a bad,
“drinking, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2017. Web. 7 September 2017
Drinking-bowl
- 07.096 with their wooden drinking-bowls filled with mead.
Exactly what I would want to drink mead from. This is another hyphenated word invention of Tolkien’s. The OED has them as separate words always.
Dressing-gown
As the OED says, to be worn “when in dishabille”.
- 02.001 and putting on his dressing-gown
“ˈdressing-gown, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2017. Web. 7 September 2017.
Drench
- 04.005 Soon they were getting drenched
- 08.031 He was drenched from hair to boots,
- 14.015 though all had been drenched with water before he came.
- 14.028 He was drenched with water,
Drear
First meaning is gory and bloody and horrible! Then on the word moved to “sad”, then melancholy and dull. “Drear” is a poetic shortening.
- 02.028 Not far ahead were dreary hills,
- 03.001 and drear it looked,
- 09.012 This is the dreariest
- 10.003 Dreary as had been his imprisonment
- 14.002 and drear even
- 19.004 So sad and so dreary?
“dreary, adj.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2015. Web. 27 July 2015.
Dream-dinners
This concept is not a word attested in OED.
- 08.067 Dream-dinners aren’t any good,
Sometimes we settle for any kind of dinner we can get. I note here that Tolkien and C.S.Lewis have notably sumptuous descriptions of meals – I’ve heard it said that British authors who survived war rationing have a tendency to do so. Can anyone link me a good paper on the topic? Brian Jacques, whose Redwall banquets make my mouth water, was a child in World War II.
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