- 07.133 that they should reach the forest-gate
- 07.143 they found close to the forest-gate,
A word not attested in OED.
hyphen
Forest-floor
- 08.003 in places on the forest-floor;
Attested in OED.
“forest, n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/73187. Accessed 13 September 2017.
Forest-day
- 08.076 of the forest-day about him when he came to his senses.
A word not attested in OED.
Fore-foot
Attested in OED with space, hyphen, or as a single word.
- 07.092 and carry things with their fore-feet.
“fore-foot, n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/73023. Accessed 13 September 2017.
Food-supplies
- 01.122 especially in food-supplies,
I am struck by this passage. Thorin explains that the dwarves of the mountain didn’t bother to grow or hunt food for themselves, since they could very easily be paid in food for their amazing work. That seems a recipe for disaster. If this is true, then the drive to work things out peacefully with the people of Dale would be foundational to any child of any leading house of that community. Do we take the dwarves as a sub-community of the larger Long Lake region, as we would a monastery providing medicine and prayer to a medieval village upon whose farming they depend? If you don’t have food, about two days of siege would lose you all your gold. Can one of our Word Fans point us to scholarly work or speculative fiction on the subject?
This word is attested in OED both with and without hyphens.
“food, n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/72632. Accessed 13 September 2017.
Food-bags
Concerning rain as they traveled.
- 02.029 and into the food-bags,” thought Bilbo.
Considering food preservation techniques in such an age, I would have been sad to even lose cram to rain damage. If only salted things were left after the weather of Chapter 2, that certainly would have contributed to my enthusiasm in finding Rivendell in the next chapter!
“Food-bag” is not attested in OED.
Foe-hammer
- 03.035 Foe-hammer that the king of Gondolin once wore.
- 04.041 This sword’s name was Glamdring the Foe-hammer,
- 04.048 and Foe-hammer
A name coined by Tolkien for a specific object, of course, it’s a JRRT original, nowhere attested in OED.
Fly-walk
- 11.018 I am too fat for such fly-walks,’
This one is original JRRT.
Flip-flap
I can almost hear the echoes off of bare stone.
- 05.120 Gollum flip-flapping ahead,
It’s reduplicative, it’s sound play!
“flip-flap, adv., n., and adj.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/71658. Accessed 13 September 2017.
Fish-bones
- 05.070 fish-bones,
a single, compound word, once spelled “fysshebonne”. Bless.
“fish, n.1.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/70646. Accessed 13 September 2017.
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