- 19.044 for the help of the Lake-people,
this one is not attested in OED, although “lake-dweller” and “lake-man” are.
“lake, n.4.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/105168. Accessed 14 September 2017.
this one is not attested in OED, although “lake-dweller” and “lake-man” are.
“lake, n.4.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/105168. Accessed 14 September 2017.
This word is not in OED as one word – a JRRT original.
The fruits of the hawthorn are pomes, not technically berries. The most famous hawthorn of British legend is the Holy Thorn of Glastonbury, the site of King Arthur’s resting place.
While “pome” can refer to many different fruits such as apples and pears and hawthorn-berries, there is no separate word for the pome of a hawthorn, so this word is a specific word in Bilbo’s language that we do not have in English.
“pome, n.1.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/147472. Accessed 14 September 2017.
Although many things combine with “half-” in the OED, this one is not found there. It’s not unique to Tolkien, but we are using the JRRT tag to include those words that he may not have invented, but certainly used and which are not dictionary-supported.
Not found in OED.
Although the nouns “gold-plate” and “gold-plating” are in OED, this word is not. That seems very strange to me, so I double-checked. “Plated” is a perfectly good adjective, and it seems that various combinations with the metal which is doing the plating does not make compound words, according to the OED editors.
“gold, n.1.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/79763. Accessed 13 September 2017.
“plated, adj.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/145355. Accessed 13 September 2017.
This word is not found in OED.
This word is not found in OED.
Is this the name of the place, I wonder?
This word is not found in OED.
This word is not found in OED.