This compound word is not found in OED.
- 12.096 of dwarf-linked rings
hyphen
Dwarf-lad
- 15.010 when I was a dwarf-lad.
This compound word is nowhere in the OED.
Dwarf-kings
This word is attested, hyphenated, in the OED.
- 10.008 of the dwarf-kings of the Mountain,
“dwarf, n. and adj.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2017. Web. 7 September 2017.
Dwarf-fashion
No such word in the OED’s “dwarf” entry.
- 07.069 (in proper dwarf-fashion)
Dungeon-hall
Not attested in OED.
- 12.012 or dungeon-hall of the ancient dwarves
Drum-shaped
Attested in OED.
- 07.093 in rolling round drum-shaped sections of logs,
“drum, n.1.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2017. Web. 7 September 2017.
Drinking-horn
Hyphenated in the OED entry.
- 13.046 and broken drinking-horns
I am struck that they are broken drinking horns – it helps me remember that the dragon isn’t a glorious creature who looks splendid in among the treasure, but that Tolkien’s dragons in Middle-earth are malicious and covetous.
[01.123] Dragons… hardly know a good bit of work from a bad,
“drinking, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2017. Web. 7 September 2017
Drinking-bowl
- 07.096 with their wooden drinking-bowls filled with mead.
Exactly what I would want to drink mead from. This is another hyphenated word invention of Tolkien’s. The OED has them as separate words always.
Dressing-gown
As the OED says, to be worn “when in dishabille”.
- 02.001 and putting on his dressing-gown
“ˈdressing-gown, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2017. Web. 7 September 2017.
Dream-dinners
This concept is not a word attested in OED.
- 08.067 Dream-dinners aren’t any good,
Sometimes we settle for any kind of dinner we can get. I note here that Tolkien and C.S.Lewis have notably sumptuous descriptions of meals – I’ve heard it said that British authors who survived war rationing have a tendency to do so. Can anyone link me a good paper on the topic? Brian Jacques, whose Redwall banquets make my mouth water, was a child in World War II.
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