- 01.117 supposing the burglar-expert
No OED entries for this one, of course, this is pure JRRT!
JRRT
Blacksmith-work
Although “smith-work” is found in OED, the specific work of a blacksmith is not, so this is a JRRT original hyphenated word.
- 01.124 often enough sinking as low as blacksmith-work or even coalmining.
Birthday-present
In the 1937 edition of The Hobbit, this word phrase does not appear.
In the OED, it has a compound word entry “birthday present” with an example of “birth-day present”, but in no case hyphenated as JRRT uses it here.
- 05.085 My birthday-present!’
- 05.087 My birthday-present!
- 05.109 My birthday-present.’
- 05.111 My birthday-present!
“birthday, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2017. Web. 5 September 2017.
Bird-speech
- 15.014 and not bird-speech)
It is not found as a compound form under “speech” – nor is any similar, like “whale speech” or “French speech”, so the meaning as “language of the birds” is JRRT original (or the similarly obscure invention of another, but raised into notice by JRRT).
Troll-make
- 03.035 and he said: “These are not troll-make.
Not found in OED.
Tub-trading
- 12.059 of those miserable tub-trading Lake-men,
No such word in OED.
Beech-log
Beech is any one of about a dozen species in the genus Fagaceae.
Obviously this means “logs of beech wood”, but “beech-log” is not in OED, nor is “beech log” one of those two-word words so stuck together that they get their own entry. This hyphenated form is JRRT original.
- 02.043 a very large fire of beech-logs.
Tunnel-wall
- 05.112 against the tunnel-wall.
Not found in OED.
Bee-pastures
- 07.028 We are on the edge of his bee-pastures.’
No such word-concept in OED, I declare this a JRRT original.
Bear-track
No entry at all in OED: obviously “track” is in there, and can follow any sort of animal name, and in that configuration is not one word-concept as JRRT uses it here.
- 07.117 I have been picking out bear-tracks,’
Photo from Wikipedia Commons: “Animal Tracks”.
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