- 06.012 You nearly chopped off my head with Glamdring,
- 10.038 and Smaug chopped up into little pieces.
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Choke
- 02.046 William choked.
- 13.001 when they were becoming choked
Chieftain
- 07.009 and his fifteen chieftains golden collars
Chew
- 13.064 in fact very uninteresting except as a chewing exercise.
Chestnut
Well, now I’ve learned something! I thought that Gollum called the first riddle a “chestnut” because that might be an idiom for “easy to crack”. I have been educated. OED tells us:
6. slang. A story that has been told before, a ‘venerable’ joke. Hence, in extended use, anything trite, stale, or too often repeated.
- 05.032 Chestnuts, chestnuts,
- 05.032 Chestnuts, chestnuts,
- 05.041 This he thought a dreadfully easy chestnut,
“chestnut | chesnut, n. and adj.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, March 2016. Web. 2 June 2016.
Cheat
- 04.001 But most of the paths were cheats
- 05.077 were afraid to cheat when they played at it.
- 06.095 we are glad to cheat the goblins of their sport,
Char
- 13.046 charred and decaying.
Champ
- 04.013 and champing
- 05.030 First they champ,
Cavern-mouth
Constructed of one uncommon and one common word! This one is not attested in OED as a hyphenated word at all, or even as a compound word. JRRT gets the credit for our purposes.
- 09.004 He did not at all like the look of the cavern-mouth,
Cavern
- 01.073 To dungeons deep and caverns old
- 01.077 To dungeons deep and caverns old
- 01.082 and caverns dim
- 01.083 in dark caverns.
- 01.144 To dungeons deep and caverns old
- 03.037 in the deserted caverns of the mines of Moria,
- 04.022 when they stumbled into a big cavern.
- 04.024 and dragged them to the far end of the cavern
- 04.035 in the cavern went out,
- 09.053 Leave the halls and caverns deep,
- 11.008 and see the dark cavernous opening
- 13.050 of the dragon-haunted caverns,
- 15.026 They explored the caverns once more,
- 15.041 Come back unto the caverns old’!
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