A new JRRT construct.
- 17.051 and the elf-charge was halted,
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Elf-cave
A brand new JRRT construction!
- 09.051 in the elf-caves for ever.
Egg-shaped
- 08.092 and it did not take him long to find a nice smooth egg-shaped one
Ah, the right tool for the job. Nothing like it.
This word is, of course, attested in OED. I rather love one of the examples:
1854 J. H. Stocqueler Hand-bk. Brit. India (ed. 3) 370 Ceylon is egg-shaped.
“egg, n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/59878. Accessed 13 September 2017.
Egg-question
- 05.047 he was so flustered by the egg-question.
- 05.073 than when Bilbo had asked him the egg-question.
This is one of the few times that hyphenating words to create a new one distracts me. Were there truly so many questions about eggs that Bilbo’s language had a word for that? Or is it a clue to the nature of the language itself – able to adapt to new concepts by agglutinating when appropriate?
This word does not appear in OED. Wouldn’t that have been surprising?
Easy-tempered
Attested on OED. Also, please note, OED is now offering MLA 8 citations.
- 07.019 Couldn’t you find someone more easy-tempered?
“easy, adj., adv., and n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/59126. Accessed 13 September 2017.
Eagle-lord
This word does not appear in OED, so it’s a Tolkien original – or used by only a few including him.
- 06.094 and the eagle-lord appeared to know one another slightly,
Dwarf-ridden
This compound word is not found in OED.
- 12.062 that I can eat a dwarf-ridden pony
Dwarf-messenger
This compound word is not found in OED.
- 17.035 so after angry words the dwarf-messengers retired
Dwarf-mail
This compound word is not found in OED.
- 17.036 Dwarf-mail may be good,
Dwarf-lord
This compound word is not found in OED.
- 17.045 for the dwarf-lord now joined them:
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