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
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.
What a cheerful door bell! This imitative, hyphenated word is completely a JRRT invention.
“Elf” is an uncommon word. The hyphenated combination is unattested in OED, therefore a JRRT original. Tolkien spun out a marvelously complex tapestry of interrelations between types of Elves in his legendarium.
[08.131] The feasting people were Wood-elves, of course. These are not wicked folk. If they have a fault it is distrust of strangers. Though their magic was strong, even in those days they were wary. They differed from the High Elves of the West, and were more dangerous and less wise. For most of them (together with their scattered relations in the hills and mountains) were descended from the ancient tribes that never went to Faerie in the West. There the Light-elves and the Deep-elves and the Sea-elves went and lived for ages, and grew fairer and wiser and more learned, and invented their magic and their cunning craft in the making of beautiful xx and marvellous things, before some came back into the Wide World. In the Wide World the Wood-elves lingered in the twilight of our Sun and Moon…
The Tolkien Gateway article on them may be found here. A beautifully detailed genealogy of individuals may be found here. Finally, a very accessible chart of the relationships between different groups of Elves may be found here.
“Dart” is an uncommon word. Dart-throwing is unattested in OED, so JRRT original.
Two common words comprise this uncommon hyphenated one. It’s one of my favorite colors, yet unattested in OED.
Two common words comprise this uncommon hyphenated one. It is not attested in OED, and so a JRRT original!
As with most names and titles in the work, there is no reference in OED, and it is now classed as JRRT original.
Although “clink-clank” is in OED as well as plain old “clink”, making this hyphenated word is a JRRT original.
“clink, n.1.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2017. Web. 7 September 2017.
“clink-clank, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2017. Web. 7 September 2017.
Constructed of one uncommon and one common word! This one is not attested in OED as a hyphenated word at all, or even as a compound word. JRRT gets the credit for our purposes.
Say it aloud! This name is a sound-play word – hinting that the Raven language is still spoken all around us and we have lost the wit to understand.
Tolkien writes in his Essay on Phonetic Symbolism about the origin of this name – and of his father’s
rook is no longer krāg or krāk or χrk from which it took its use.
Tolkien, J. R. R.. A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages (Kindle Locations 1954-1955). HarperCollins Publishers. Kindle Edition.