- 01.004 (which is curly);
- 06.100 He slept curled up on the hard rock
- 08.065 and he found it was the hobbit curled up fast asleep.
- 08.092 with all its legs curled up.
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Crust
- 12.014 and his long pale belly crusted with gems
- 13.035 in a belt crusted with scarlet stones.
Crumple
- 16.026 crumpled and much folded,
Crumble
- 03.007 and crumbling rock,
- 14.015 and the roof of the Great House crumbled
- 19.002 His bones are now crumbled;
Crumb
- 08.046 and crumbs of food;
Crow
- 11.008 and ominous crow.
- 11.011 followed ever by croaking crows above them,
- 12.102 like a monstrous crow,
- 14.041 and crows were gathered thick above him,
- 15.001 and the crows that still lived about the Mountain
- 15.009 Those were crows!
Crouch
- 05.127 He seemed to be crouched right down
- 12.022 and they crouched against the walls
Cross-legged
This hyphenated word is entered exactly so in OED.
- 07.097 The dwarves were sitting cross-legged on the floor round the fire,
“cross-legged, adj.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2017. Web. 7 September 2017.
Crock
- 01.065 Dump the crocks in a boiling bowl;
- 02.001 and piles of unwashed crocks
Crockery is earthenware, compared to the wooden drinking vessels we see elsewhere.
Cringe
- 12.022 cringing under boulders,
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