This beautiful image word is nowhere in the OED.
- 13.051 of the dragon-haunted caverns,
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Dragon-guarded
This one is a hyphenated word entry in OED.
- 12.009 I have absolutely no use for dragon-guarded treasures,
“dragon, n.1.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2017. Web. 7 September 2017.
Dragon-gold
It is not attested in OED with a hyphen, a space, or as a single word.
- 07.013 They offered him dragon-gold
- 07.013 and I think I have earned already some of your dragon-gold –
Dragon-fire
This beautiful word is not found in OED hyphenated or compound – it is JRRT original for our purposes, and much used by modern fantasy authors. And my favorite form of the word? Right here. The ultimate lullabye.
- 01.076 The dragon-fire, in twisted wire
- 13.009 But certainly it was not a spark of dragon-fire,
- 14.033 Dragon-fire and ruin!
- 15.039 The dragon-fire, from twisted wire
Double-thick
This hyphenated word is made from two common words. It’s not found either hyphenated or as a compound word in the OED, so is a JRRT original for our purposes.
- 08.102 only great strands of double-thick spider-rope
Door-step
Notice that the word changes once we leave the Shire? In the OED entry, the hyphenated form is associated with older quotations, the unhyphenated form is from the 1900 or later entries.
- 01.097 As soon as I saw your funny faces on the door-step,
- 01.140 If you sit on the door-step long enough,
- 01.141 and isn’t sitting on the door-step your job,
- 05.148 his nice brass buttons on the doorstep.
- 08.127 Buttons all over the doorstep!
- 11.020 Bilbo found sitting on the doorstep lonesome
- 11.020 there was not a doorstep,
- 11.020 and the opening the ‘doorstep’
- 11.020 when he said they could sit on the doorstep
- 11.022 You said sitting on the doorstep
- 12.081 in a faint on the ‘doorstep’.
- 13.052 But I don’t feel that Smaug’s front doorstep
“ˈdoor-step, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2017. Web. 7 September 2017.
Door-post
This hyphenated word is made from two common words and is hyphenated in its OED entry.
- 05.146 and the door-post.
“ˈdoor-post, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2017. Web. 7 September 2017.
Dish-covers
This hyphenated word is made from two common words, and has a hyphenated entry in OED.
- 01.117 and shields as cradles or dish-covers;
Swords into ploughshares – the Shire is heaven on Middle-Earth.
“dish, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2017. Web. 7 September 2017.
Dining-room
This hyphenated word is made from two common words. Tolkien never uses “dining room” as two separate words. We may be certain that in Bilbo’s native language there was a specific – and probably important! – word for dining-room, not just some subcategory of “room”. In the OED, this hyphenated form is the preferred spelling.
- 01.002 dining-rooms,
- 02.001 went into the dining-room.
- 02.002 in the kitchen before turning out the dining-room.
- 02.002 in the dining-room by the open window,
- 04.012 in Bilbo’s dining-room that seemed so long ago,
Just updating this entry to note that it’s a food word just as much as cellar or pantry is!
“dining-room, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2017. Web. 7 September 2017.
Ding-dong-a-ling-dang
What a cheerful door bell! This imitative, hyphenated word is completely a JRRT invention.
- 01.043 ding-dong-a-ling-dang,
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