- 06.068 and noble-hearted.
This sub-entry is not entered in OED without the hyphen!
“noble, adj. and n.1.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/127485. Accessed 19 September 2017.
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No-legs
- 05.053 No-legs lay on one-leg,
- 05.054 no-legs’ was not so very difficult,
This invention is not found in the OED.
New-hewn
- 15.031 and the Gate blocked with a wall of new-hewn stone.
This word is found nowhere in the OED.
Never-varying
- 12.007 going with a gentle never-varying slope direct –
This word is a single word, a hyphenated word, and a two-word word in the examples of its sub-entry in OED.
“never, adv. and int.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/126487. Accessed 19 September 2017.
Mountain-wall
- 15.028 from the mountain-wall
This one appears as a two-word entry, but without hyphens in the example. I’m giving it the JRRT tag.
“mountain, n. and adj.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/122893. Accessed 19 September 2017.
Mountain-top
- 12.022 and settled on the mountain-top
Mountain-top has both hyphenated and unhyphenated examples in OED.
“mountain, n. and adj.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/122893. Accessed 19 September 2017.
Mountain-stream
- 03.026 as mountain-streams do of a summer evening,
- 06.039 and he drank from a small mountain-stream that crossed the path,
This word has a proper sub-entry in OED, where it is both hyphenated and not.
“mountain, n. and adj.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/122893. Accessed 19 September 2017.
Mountain-spur
- 13.064 and the great shoulder of the south-pointing mountain-spur
“Mountain spur” has its own sub-entry in the OED, but no hyphen is to be found therein, even with the examples. I’m calling this one a JRRT original spelling.
“mountain, n. and adj.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/122893. Accessed 19 September 2017.
Mountain-slope
- 06.041 that here stood right up the mountain slope
- 18.021 from the mountain-slopes,
“Mountain slope” with or without hyphens is found in OED. I have added the spaced version of the signifier to our own entry.
“mountain, n. and adj.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/122893. Accessed 19 September 2017.
Mountain-side
The “mountainside” is in Chapter 4, so it’s not a different region or mountain range. Everywhere else in the work, it is hyphenated. In no instance does “mountain side” occur in the work.
- 04.002 Boulders, too, at times came galloping down the mountain-sides,
- 04.005 and shouting all over the mountainsides.
- 06.093 on a wide shelf of rock on the mountain-side.
- 11.011 or he might be lying out on the mountain-side keeping watch,
- 11.013 searching for paths up the mountain-side.
- 11.028 some were roving about the mountain-side.
- 11.038 in the mountain-side,
- 12.029 licking the mountain-sides with flame,
- 12.031 and round the mountain-sides.
- 12.032 and had scaled the mountain-side
- 12.067 Not much use on the mountain-side?
- 15.003 when Smaug smashed the mountain-side,
“Mountainside” has its own entry in OED, where it does appear hyphenated in the examples.
“mountainside, n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/122907. Accessed 19 September 2017.
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