- 12.052 the web-cutter,
This word does not appear in OED.
JRRT
Wolf-ally
- 07.122 with their wolf-allies into the lands
This does not appear in OED – it’s a JRRT original.
Wolf-glade
- 07.122 From the burnt wolf-glade
This is, of course, a JRRT original.
Wolf-guards
- 06.070 But the wolf-guards did not leave the trees.
This word is a JRRT original.
Wolf-ring
- 07.082 and of the wolf-ring
This word is not found in OED.
Wood-elf
- 08.130 Then the Wood-elves had come to him,
- 08.131 The feasting people were Wood-elves,
- 08.131 in the Wide World the Wood-elves lingered
- 08.144 for Wood-elves were not goblins,
- 09.001 Out leaped Wood-elves with their bows
- 09.011 Companies of the Wood-elves,
- 09.016 would suffer seriously if the Wood-elves claimed part of it,
- 09.018 for the Wood-elves,
- 09.025 It must be potent wine to make a wood-elf drowsy;
- 10.003 and the Wood-elves
- 10.003 and the river was guarded by the Wood-elves’ king.
- 10.009 to be taken back up the stream to the Wood-elves’ home.
- 10.018 they were friends with the Wood-elves.
- 10.025 their knives had been taken from them by the wood-elves,
- 10.033 in the Wood-elves’ realm.
- 10.036 The Wood-elves themselves began to wonder greatly
- 10.040 In the meanwhile the Wood-elves had gone back
- 12.007 or rough wood-elves’ cave.
- 18.024 to the Wood-elves’ realm
This word is not found in OED.
Worm-stench
- 13.009 though the worm-stench was heavy
This word is not found in OED.
Roäc
This proper name qualified for our onomatopoeia tag. It hints that we have all heard and been surrounded by ancient raven-tongue our whole lives and have simply not the wit to hear this lingering remnant of the Third Age.
Tolkien himself 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.
- 15.014 I am Roäc son of Carc.
- 15.017 said Roäc.
- 15.021 Roäc Carc’s son.
- 15.022 croaked Roäc,
- 16.005 said Roäc,
- 17.030 but Thorin sent messengers by Roäc
Tolkien, J. R. R.. A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages (Kindle Locations 1954-1955). HarperCollins Publishers. Kindle Edition.
Rockhewn
The entry and the examples of the word in the OED are hyphenated, with one example as two separate words. We have here another reminder that we are reading a work in translation.
- 13.066 into a rockhewn chamber
“rock-hewn, adj.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2015. Web. 25 June 2015.
Creepsy
Tolkien added a -y to “creep” in parallel construction to “tricksy”. The “-y” suffix indicates “characterized or full of” and in Old English was spelled “ig”. “Creepsy” is Tolkien’s own original word constructed from his deep understanding of the roots of our language. I’m giving it the onomatopoeia tag for adding an ‘s’ to Gollum’s words where there was none.
- 05.117 and he’ll come creepsy
“-y, suffix1.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2015. Web. 14 July 2015.
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