- 17.003 bore a strong casket of iron-bound wood.
“iron-bound, adj.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/99508. Accessed 14 September 2017.
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Honey-smelling
- 07.025 and wide stretches of short white sweet honey-smelling clover.
English is short on olfactory words; I’m pleased that Bilbo’s native tongue (in which he was writing this memoir) has such an adjective.
Update 2017.09.14: this is a perfectly good English word, says the OED!
“honey, n. and adj.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/88159. Accessed 14 September 2017.
Hind-legs
- 07.092 The dogs could stand on their hind-legs when they wished,
This word is not in OED as one word – a JRRT original.
Hill-side
Once hyphenated and twice not? This apparent contradiction arouses my curiosity!
- 06.067 down the hillsides from their gate
- 06.086 and there with the light of the moon on a hill-side rock or a stream
- 09.018 from the hillside there was a water-gate.
To my surprise, the hypenated or two-word form are attested in OED, the single-word form is not… until it is itself one member of a combination word
1890 Daily News 20 Dec. 5/6 The name ‘Hillside men’..applied to the Fenians.
“hill-side, n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/87009. Accessed 14 September 2017.
High-walled
- 12.032 and the little high-walled bay had kept out his fiercest flames.
A perfectly proper OED combined word.
“high, adj. and n.2.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/86850. Accessed 14 September 2017.
Hiding-place
- 05.084 in his hiding-place he kept a few wretched oddments,
This has a hyphen just so in OED
“hiding-place, n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/86756. Accessed 14 September 2017.
Hide-and-seek
- 13.010 Stop playing hide-and-seek!
A game well known and attested by the 1600s
“hide-and-seek, n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/86727. Accessed 14 September 2017.
Helter-skelter
- 06.012 and helter-skelter down here.
A word of which OED says:
Etymology: A jingling expression vaguely imitating the hurried clatter of feet rapidly and irregularly moved, or of many running feet.
Therefore this word will be added to the onomatopoeia tag!
“helter-skelter, adv., adj., n., and v.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/85762. Accessed 14 September 2017.
Hearth-rug
- 01.092 the poor little hobbit could be seen kneeling on the hearth-rug,
Attested in OED as a single word or hyphenated one.
“hearthrug, n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/85096. Accessed 14 September 2017.
Hawthorn-berries
- 06.039 not even hawthorn-berries.
The fruits of the hawthorn are pomes, not technically berries. The most famous hawthorn of British legend is the Holy Thorn of Glastonbury, the site of King Arthur’s resting place.
While “pome” can refer to many different fruits such as apples and pears and hawthorn-berries, there is no separate word for the pome of a hawthorn, so this word is a specific word in Bilbo’s language that we do not have in English.
“pome, n.1.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/147472. Accessed 14 September 2017.
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