This word occurs in every chapter, and it occurs as both a noun and a verb.

• 1.006 and Bilbo Baggins was standing at his door after breakfast
• 1.012 He stood leaning on his stick
• 1.023 was still standing outside the door,
• 1.050 said Bifur, Bofur, and Bombur standing
• 1.059 there stood Balin
• 1.068 Bilbo stood still
• 2.021 who was standing at the inn door looking out for him.
• 2.048 So he stood and hesitated
• 2.077 He stood outside
• 2.106 for he stood turned to stone as he stooped;
• 2.106 And there they stand to this day,
• 2.113 to pots full of gold coins standing
• 3.044 “Stand by the grey stone
• 4.005 and their ponies were standing with their heads down
• 4.012 and before long they came to a big rock standing out into the path.
• 4.013 and there they stood
• 4.025 and armed goblins were standing round him
• 4.037 as he stood dumbfounded
• 5.030 Then they stand still.
• 5.135 was left standing open.
• 6.041 that here stood right up the mountain slope
• 6.052 a large pine standing at the very edge of the glade.
• 6.057 and stand on his back.
• 6.072 stood the wolves at a respectful distance,
• 7.034 Standing near was a huge man with a thick black beard
• 7.034 The horses were standing by him with their noses at his shoulder.
• 7.036 standing in front of them
• 7.051 and stood bowing low before them.
• 7.077 and stood smiling
• 7.092 The dogs could stand on their hind-legs when they wished,
• 7.096 with the pillars of the house standing tall behind them,
• 7.104 Suddenly up stood Gandalf.
• 7.117 but on the other side is a cliff standing up from a swirling channel.
• 8.006 They could not stand that,
• 8.032 They were still standing over him,
• 8.044 was standing near the bottom of a wide valley,
• 8.046 by standing under giant oaks
• 8.078 and he stood a long while wondering
• 8.081 Standing behind a tree he watched a group of them for some time,
• 8.094 When about fifty had gone off to the place where he had stood before,
• 8.099 Standing now
• 8.115 only four of the dwarves were able to stand firmly,
• 9.018 There stood barrels,
• 9.020 which stood close to the point
• 9.037 in fact already standing
• 9.045 when the explanation stands close at hand
• 9.065 The elves that were standing
• 9.068 where other elves stood to fend them off with poles,
• 10.010 and buffeted he could hardly stand or stumble
• 10.028 and stood blinking
• 11.006 where the Front Gate stood.
• 11.013 where the Gates of the river stood,
• 11.013 must stand the secret door.
• 11.014 creeping behind a great stone that stood alone like a pillar,
• 11.031 Forgetting all danger he stood on the ledge
• 11.032 the hobbit standing by the grey stone,
• 11.032 but still Bilbo stood almost without moving.
• 12.001 For a long time the dwarves stood
• 12.005 and stood on one leg,
• 12.014 in rows stood great jars
• 12.028 A red light touched the points of standing rocks.
• 12.032 from the valley where the ponies had been standing;
• 13.018 Soon he stood upon the top,
• 13.048 before them stood the broad light of day.
• 13.049 and stood gazing out with dazzled eyes.
• 14.033 (for Bard now stood close beside him)
• 15.032 As they stood pointing
• 15.044 and they advanced until they stood right before the wall at the Gate.
• 15.046 A tall man stood forward,
• 15.055 and trumpeters stood forth
• 16.036 stood up in amazement.
• 16.039 I am willing to let it stand against all my claim,
• 17.001 At a distance he stood
• 17.034 They would stand a siege for weeks,
• 17.041 and stood alone,
• 17.060 He had taken his stand on Ravenhill among the Elves –
• 17.060 in a last desperate stand,
• 18.013 and there stood Gandalf,
• 18.023 The dwarves were making a stand still
• 18.035 though old agreements cannot stand,
• 18.046 and standing on one foot,
• 19.001 where stood the Last
• 19.039 His coat of mail was arranged on a stand

Goblins do it, Dwarves do it especially to put out fires —

• 4.023 and stamped
• 4.033 and stamped.
• 5.030 Then they stamp,
• 6.072 and stamped
• 6.072 and stamped,
• 6.082 and stamped with rage,
• 8.043 who were now simply stamping with impatience down below,
• 8.098 and stamped.
• 13.016 when Bilbo actually began to stamp on the floor,

In addition to First-class, uncommon word, we have the quite common First.

• 1.002 first on one side
• 1.062 and we must have some music first.
• 1.072 And suddenly first one
• 1.119 First I should like to know
• 1.123 The first we heard of it was
• 2.028 At first they had passed through hobbit-lands,
• 2.093 “Who shall we sit on first?”
• 2.094 “Better sit on the last fellow first,” said Bert,
• 3.032 and the first men
• 3.043 that even Elrond should have found this out first,
• 3.045 the Longbeards, and my first ancestor:
• 3.047 “The first day of the dwarves’ New Year,”
• 3.047 the first day of the last moon of Autumn
• 4.031 and first, second,
• 5.009 which startled him at first,
• 5.018 otherwise he would have grabbed first
• 5.024 You ask first,
• 5.030 First they champ,
• 5.035 Said the first eye,
• 5.038 It comes first and follows after,
• 5.082 and get some things first,
• 5.087 Gollum used to wear it at first,
• 5.097 It must tell first.’
• 5.100 then I asked one first.
• 5.130 and cursing almost at his heels at first,
• 6.016 Well, it is the first time that even a mouse
• 7.022 descended from the first men who lived
• 7.069 The big man was frowning at first,
• 7.076 That’s the first time I’ve heard eight called a dozen.
• 7.080 That’s the first time I’ve heard one from ten leave fourteen.
• 7.116 I will answer the second question first,’
• 7.117 And now I think I have answered your first question,
• 7.133 and at first he thought
• 8.023 Who’ll cross first?’ asked Bilbo.
• 8.028 we used at first,
• 8.037 They were at first inclined to be cheered by the change,
• 8.046 the first thing they noticed was
• 8.059 No sooner had the first stepped into the clearing
• 8.060 when Dori, whose turn it was to watch first,
• 8.062 I shall send Mr. Baggins alone first to talk to them.
• 8.078 but obviously he had first of all to look for his friends,
• 8.078 and in what direction he should go first to look for the dwarves.
• 8.086 said the first.
• 8.088 now that he noticed them for the first time dangling
• 8.105 he reached the first bundle.
• 8.107 between them they started to haul up first one dwarf
• 9.023 so let us have a drink first to help the labour.’
• 9.027 First he unlocked Balin’s door,
• 9.050 So they sang as first one barrel
• 9.063 Of course helped by his magic ring he got on very well at first,
• 9.068 slowly at first,
• 10.010 First of all a barrel was cut loose by Bilbo
• 10.043 Then for the first time the Master was surprised
• 11.005 They made their first camp
• 11.019 and at first they tried to use these.
• 12.004 to go into the secret passage first,
• 12.021 since first he came to the Mountain!
• 12.034 blaming him for what had at first so pleased them:
• 12.093 because at first he wanted to try
• 13.006 and Thorin was the first to go forward by Bilbo’s side.
• 13.033 first on one side
• 13.036 Here is the first payment of your reward!
• 13.071 when the first cold stars came out.
• 14.026 and their first complaints
• 14.035 Doubtless they perished first
• 14.042 which had at first been direct towards the Mountain,
• 15.053 first dismiss the elvish host to the woods where it belongs,
• 16.014 rouse me first,
• 16.044 For the first time for many a day
• 17.016 and listen first to what he has to say!’
• 17.050 The elves were the first to charge.
• 17.053 They had only stemmed the first onslaught of the black tide.
• 18.027 and departed with the first light of morning.
• 19.001 It was on May the first
• 19.001 (or the First)
• 19.020 I suppose this is the first taste of it.’

Today’s trivia: the word Hill appears in every chapter of The Hobbit except one. Chapter Ten. Even though we cross “a steep shoulder of land” [10.001] and it takes place in a mountainous region. Hmm.

• 1.002 going fairly but not quite straight into the side of the hill –
• 1.002 The Hill,
• 1.003 in the neighbourhood of The Hill
• 1.004 the small river that ran at the foot of The Hill.
• 1.005 that was to be found either under The Hill or over The Hill or across The Water,
• 1.005 that was to be found either under The Hill or over The Hill or across The Water,
• 1.006 He had not been down that way under The Hill for ages
• 1.006 He had been away over The Hill
• 1.010 and floated away over The Hill.
• 1.013 You might try over The Hill or across The Water.’
• 1.068 of the smoke-rings he had sent up the wind over The Hill.
• 1.070 and very far from his hobbit-hole under The Hill.
• 1.071 in the side of The Hill;
• 1.083 settling on his quiet Hill
• 2.028 Not far ahead were dreary hills,
• 2.030 came rushing down from the hills
• 2.031 above the hills
• 2.036 There was a hill some way off with trees on it,
• 2.039 They came to the hill
• 2.039 Up the hill they went;
• 2.106 the light came over the hill,
• 2.111 They followed the tracks up the hill,
• 3.007 and no valleys and no hills
• 3.050 Chapter IV OVER HILL and UNDER HILL
• 3.050 Chapter IV OVER HILL and UNDER HILL
• 4.033 in the hills or did battle before their walls.
• 5.030 Thirty white horses on a red hill,
• 5.038 It lies behind stars and under hills,
• 6.049 All of a sudden they heard a howl away down hill,
• 7.002 and pinnacles of the hills.
• 7.005 almost a hill of stone,
• 7.010 on the top of the hill of stone
• 7.022 and before the goblins came into the hills out of the North.
• 7.084 when the goblins came down from the hills
• 8.131 in the hills
• 9.018 leading deep into the heart of the hill;
• 9.053 Back to gardens on the hills
• 11.022 and the Hill
• 12.050 I come from under the hill,
• 12.050 and under the hills
• 12.050 and over the hills my paths led.
• 12.070 We came over hill
• 12.070 and under hill,
• 13.038 How they would laugh on the Hill at home!
• 13.065 At length they reached the hill path.
• 14.002 was mostly screened by the low hills
• 14.008 in the hills
• 15.021 in the Iron Hills,
• 15.043 and he began reckoning the distance to the Iron Hills
• 16.004 hurrying from the Iron Hills,
• 16.029 and the dwarves of the Iron Hills?’
• 17.044 and gathered by hill
• 17.044 which divided the Lonely Mountain from the hills behind.
• 17.051 the dwarves of the Iron Hills plunged in,
• 18.023 about their lords upon a low rounded hill.
• 19.028 he could see his own Hill
• 19.032 And trees and hills they long have known.
• 19.037 both under the Hill
• 19.037 and over the Hill,

Beards, gems, and forces of nature — white things figure predominantly in The Lord of the Rings, perhaps not so densely in The Hobbit. We should go to James Tauber’s Digital Tolkien Project… goodness! Check this out! the Project has done exactly what I was wondering! The word white appears 3.87 times per ten thousand words in The Hobbit but more than doubly that dense in the masterwork! The digital Tolkien Project is free to use, an incredible boon to Tolkien scholars. Thanks to James and his team!

• 1.007 over which his long white beard
• 1.031 on the step with a white beard
• 1.035 said Balin with the white beard.
• 1.046 and a white hood were hanging on the pegs,
• 2.027 when up came Gandalf very splendid on a white horse.
• 3.009 The only path was marked with white stones,
• 3.040 and the white light shone through it.
• 4.024 including a jolly sturdy little white fellow
• 4.035 that scattered piercing white sparks all among the goblins.
• 5.030 Thirty white horses on a red hill,
• 7.025 and wide stretches of short white sweet honey-smelling clover.
• 7.092 and in trotted four beautiful white ponies
• 7.093 One bore a white cloth embroidered at the edges
• 7.106 a splash of white on the floor came from the high moon,
• 7.116 green, blue, red, silver-grey, yellow, white;
• 7.133 There was an autumn-like mist white upon the ground
• 8.033 Suddenly on the path ahead appeared some white deer,
• 8.033 a hind and fawns as snowy white as the hart had been dark.
• 8.035 and the white deer that had appeared upon their path,
• 8.071 green and white gems
• 8.133 and white gems;
• 9.053 Through the mist that riseth white
• 10.045 The white oars dipped
• 12.096 was the great white gem,
• 13.009 there was a pale white glint,
• 13.019 the same white gleam had shone before him
• 13.019 of white radiance
• 13.037 and studded about the brim with white gems,
• 13.044 A white glimmer could be seen
• 14.023 his belly glittered white with sparkling fires of gems
• 14.024 white in the sudden dark under the moon.
• 14.025 It twisted the white fog into bending pillars
• 17.008 and white
• 18.053 and looking backward they saw a white sun
• 19.002 The white water flowing,
• 19.003 The moon is far whiter
• 19.006 to a great council of the white wizards,
• 19.010 in a white bed,

It’s not a fancy number, fully of mystery. It’s not even accurate in the teeth rhyme as most adult humans have 32 teeth, though that is variable. What’s not really variable is that the number should be divisible by four for bilateral and top-bottom symmetry. Shall we chalk that up to scansion?

• 5.030 Thirty white horses on a red hill,
• 7.075 The Great Goblin was there with thirty or forty armed guards.
• 8.012 I should have thought it was thirty at least,

For the first several hundred years of its use, grow seems to have referred only to vegetation. If you know my thoughts about the Food graph and the hope I derive from that little uptick at the end, then you can imagine my delight that

…the Forest will grow somewhat more wholesome.

The Hobbit 19.007

Please note that, in chapters 11 through 17, it is not often organic things which grow, but darkness or light, or sounds or discomfort.

• 1.004 because their feet grow natural leathery soles
• 1.005 until Bilbo Baggins was grown up,
• 1.122 Anyway they grew immensely rich
• 1.122 which we never bothered to grow or find for ourselves.
• 2.028 and the roads grew steadily worse.
• 3.008 They were growing anxious,
• 3.008 with flowers growing bright
• 3.012 The air grew warmer as they got lower,
• 3.034 grew refreshed
• 4.003 and danger had grown
• 4.038 growing fainter behind him.
• 5.011 while their eyes grew bigger
• 5.026 And yet never grows?
• 5.101 As suspicion grew
• 5.122 As the count grew he slowed down,
• 6.003 but all the while a very uncomfortable thought was growing inside him.
• 6.045 and over the black tops of those growing lower down
• 6.048 they came suddenly to an opening where no trees grew.
• 7.024 It grew very hot.
• 7.025 all the same kinds growing together as if they had been planted.
• 7.095 but Beorn seemed to be growing drowsy
• 7.096 and the voices seemed to grow far away,
• 7.126 and nuts are about all that grows there fit for food;
• 7.134 Ivy grew on them
• 8.004 before they grew to hate the forest
• 8.036 Nothing wholesome could they see growing
• 8.038 and they grew very weary.
• 8.041 of an enormous oak that grew right out into the path,
• 8.131 and grew fairer
• 8.131 that grew tall
• 9.018 though no vines grew
• 9.029 until his following had grown to twelve –
• 9.061 where the trees on either hand grew thinner.
• 10.001 The day grew lighter
• 10.005 late in the day the shores grew rocky,
• 10.038 and they quickly grew fat
• 10.039 grew stronger every day.
• 11.004 The land about them grew bleak
• 11.019 and they grew terrified, too,
• 11.026 and our beards will grow
• 12.004 may your beard grow ever longer,’
• 12.011 As he went forward it grew
• 12.011 and grew,
• 12.011 This grew to the unmistakable gurgling noise
• 12.031 they could hear the roar of the flying dragon grow
• 12.033 the terror of the dwarves grew less.
• 12.069 Now a nasty suspicion began to grow
• 12.081 and his heels grew properly again:
• 12.090 and his foreboding grew.
• 12.099 Darkness grew deeper
• 12.099 and he grew ever more uneasy.
• 13.018 The light grew smaller
• 13.019 Slowly it grew to a little globe of pallid light.
• 13.032 he grows suddenly bold,
• 13.046 and the grey light grew suddenly more full.
• 14.011 and growing ever huger
• 14.011 before the roar of Smaug’s terrible approach grew loud,
• 14.025 and the wind grew loud
• 15.043 and grew merry;
• 16.003 and he grew afraid,
• 16.003 for as the weariness of the days grew heavier,
• 16.010 may his beard grow ever longer;
• 17.042 Even as Gandalf had been speaking the darkness grew.
• 17.059 And as the valley widened his onset grew ever slower.
• 18.022 and he seemed to have grown almost to giant-size
• 18.038 May your beards never grow thin!’
• 18.049 May your shadow never grow less
• 19.002 Here grass is still growing,
• 19.007 the Forest will grow somewhat more wholesome.

It’s old, it’s clean and classic, it’s formed from the negating particle ne plus ever.

• 1.003 but also because they never had any adventures
• 1.005 The chance never arrived,
• 1.017 and never came undone till ordered?
• 1.090 may the hair on his toes never fall out!
• 1.091 may never return.
• 1.092 At may never return
• 1.122 which we never bothered to grow or find for ourselves.
• 1.123 and never enjoy a brass ring of it.
• 1.124 But we have never forgotten our stolen treasure.
• 1.128 and has never been seen by you since-‘
• 1.130 and he never told me yours;
• 1.132 but he never got near the Mountain.
• 1.134 Never you mind.
• 2.001 (“but with never a thank-you” he thought);
• 2.005 you have never dusted the mantelpiece!”
• 2.019 Bilbo could never remember how he found himself outside,
• 2.028 and sang songs Bilbo had never heard before.
• 2.030 never turning round or taking any notice of the hobbit.
• 2.032 never saying if he was in the adventure
• 2.045 “Never a blinking bit of manflesh
• 2.048 He had read of a good many things he had never seen or done.
• 2.088 “or we’ll never have done.
• 2.101 “I never did.
• 2.102 “That I never did!”
• 2.106 William never spoke
• 2.106 and never move again.
• 2.126 or we shall never get anywhere!”
• 3.002 He had never seen a thing
• 3.008 with a pack on its back would never have come out again.
• 3.012 Bilbo never forgot the way they slithered
• 3.025 although he had never seen them before.
• 3.050 and never a cloud,
• 4.005 Bilbo had never seen or imagined
• 4.034 and never let them see the light again!”
• 5.008 that men have mostly never heard or have forgotten long ago.
• 5.011 and never swam out again,
• 5.012 but never a ripple did he make.
• 5.012 but he took care they never found him out.
• 5.018 (who always spoke to himself through never having anyone else to speak to).
• 5.026 And yet never grows?
• 5.046 Never thirsty, ever drinking,
• 5.046 All in mail never clinking.
• 5.047 who never had anything to do with the water if he could help it.
• 5.081 Never you mind,
• 5.096 But you never guessed my last question,
• 5.097 Never guessed!’ said Gollum.
• 5.117 never, gollum!
• 6.026 never minded explaining his cleverness
• 6.030 (even the hobbit had never forgotten the magic fireworks
• 6.080 But he never leaped.
• 6.085 Bilbo never forgot that flight,
• 6.086 and he had never liked ladders,
• 6.086 (never having had to escape from wolves before).
• 6.099 (Dwarves have never taken to matches even yet.)
• 7.009 Bilbo never saw them again –
• 7.025 Bilbo had never seen anything like them.
• 7.038 Never heard of him,’
• 7.046 as he had never seen half of them before.
• 7.056 who was never very polite.
• 7.088 He never invited people into his house,
• 7.088 and he never invited more than a couple of these to his house at a time.
• 7.147 it is a thousand to one you will never find it again
• 7.147 and never get out of Mirkwood;
• 8.006 were careful never to let their bodies show
• 8.036 they would never have managed it;
• 8.041 Poor Mr. Baggins had never had much practice
• 8.052 I hope I never wake up again.’
• 8.056 if we never got back alive from it,’
• 8.057 and never finding his friends again.
• 8.081 like a patch of midnight that had never been cleared away.
• 8.097 You’ll never catch me up your tree!
• 8.131 that never went to Faerie
• 9.001 but they never found out if they were right.
• 9.002 they never found or counted the hobbit.
• 9.011 never daring to take off his ring,
• 9.011 so he never discovered the ways out of the wood,
• 9.066 some of these are never empty.
• 10.006 Bilbo had never imagined
• 10.014 I hope I never smell the smell of apples again!’ said Fili.
• 10.040 I have never heard what happened
• 10.040 and Bilbo was careful never to become invisible.
• 10.043 He had never thought
• 11.019 and never called or sang,
• 12.015 had never yet come home to him.
• 12.020 He had never felt quite happy about it,
• 12.020 and wondered why he had never blocked it up.
• 12.021 but have never before used or wanted.
• 12.038 Never mind that for the moment!
• 12.043 He had forgotten or had never heard about
• 12.067 Had you never thought of the catch?
• 12.068 He had never bothered to wonder
• 12.068 certainly never how any part of it that might fall to his share
• 12.080 Never laugh at live dragons,
• 12.087 I had never said that
• 12.095 Bilbo wished he had never heard them,
• 12.095 when they declared that they had never thought at all
• 12.096 but they were never delivered or paid for;
• 12.096 had never been made before,
• 13.050 I never expected to be looking out of this door.
• 13.050 And I never expected to be so pleased to see the sun again,
• 14.022 You have never failed me
• 14.043 He would never again return
• 15.017 may his feathers never fall,
• 16.033 I never met such suspicious folk!
• 16.039 personally I never really felt like one –
• 17.017 Never again will I have dealings
• 17.019 and may we never meet again!’
• 18.014 Well I never!
• 18.038 May your beards never grow thin!’
• 18.038 May your memory never fade!’
• 18.049 May your shadow never grow less
• 18.051 and he was never in great danger again.
• 19.029 By caves where never sun has shone,
• 19.029 By streams that never find the sea;
• 19.037 and were never accounted for.
• 19.037 On their side they never admitted

Yet is even older than up, adjective and adverb… and in The Hobbit, five out of 81 uses are poetical!

• 1.001 nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole
• 1.100 You may (possibly) all live to thank me yet.
• 2.001 and yet in a way he could not help feeling
• 2.048 and yet –
• 2.048 and yet somehow he could not go straight back
• 2.073 “There’s more to come yet,” said Tom,
• 3.007 but they had not got there yet,
• 3.028 “He is too fat to get through key-holes yet!”
• 3.031 Yet there is little to tell about their stay.
• 5.005 and yet not far enough.’
• 5.026 And yet never grows?
• 5.040 Yet golden treasure inside is hid,
• 5.095 No, not yet,
• 5.128 or tried to yet.
• 6.064 and had not yet escaped at all.
• 6.099 (Dwarves have never taken to matches even yet.)
• 7.024 if any had been ripe enough yet to have fallen to the ground.
• 7.076 that haven’t yet come out of their boxes?’
• 7.080 or else you haven’t told me yet
• 7.081 Oin and Gloin yet.
• 7.106 Yet in the night he woke:
• 7.121 Not eaten up by Wargs or goblins or wicked bears yet I see’ ;
• 7.126 The time is not yet come for nuts
• 8.006 Although it was not yet very cold,
• 8.035 Yet if they had known more about it
• 8.037 Yet the light only showed them
• 8.133 since he had not yet as great a treasure as other elf-lords of old.
• 9.011 yet he did not dare to march among them because of his shadow
• 9.015 not yet,
• 10.012 that they could hardly yet realize their release
• 11.005 but they dared not climb it yet,
• 11.014 yet they did not doubt that they had found the door at last.
• 11.021 and yet they would not give it up
• 12.015 had never yet come home to him.
• 12.017 not yet –
• 12.027 they had been through yet.
• 12.033 and that it was no good giving up their quest yet.
• 12.080 You aren’t nearly through this adventure yet,’
• 12.089 and a blessing yet
• 13.017 and join him yet.
• 13.019 and yet,
• 13.021 and that trouble would yet come of it.
• 13.034 but he spoke of it yet to no one.
• 13.040 This treasure is not yet won back.
• 13.040 We are not looking for gold yet,
• 13.043 and climbed yet more stairs,
• 13.043 and yet more stairs again.
• 13.046 As they came through yet more doors
• 14.025 they had not yet realized.
• 15.046 We are not yet foes,
• 15.046 yet now that we are met
• 15.048 and I am yet the servant of their Master.
• 15.049 yet he had an eye for many another wonderful thing
• 16.010 yet he was ever a dwarf with a stiff neck.’
• 17.024 But things may change yet.’
• 17.034 and by that time yet more dwarves might come,
• 17.034 and yet more,
• 17.043 There is yet time for council.
• 17.045 Yet this would be perilous,
• 17.047 Let us take our places while there is yet time!’
• 17.054 and yet giving slowly back;
• 17.059 that should have lived yet long ages merrily
• 17.062 dark shapes small yet majestic against the distant glow.
• 17.065 though as yet nothing could be seen
• 18.002 At any rate I am not yet one of the fallen heroes;
• 18.018 Yet I am glad that I have shared
• 18.033 Yet a fourteenth share of all the silver and gold,
• 18.035 Yet even though you were willing
• 18.042 yet many were glad,
• 18.044 while the world is yet young!
• 18.053 snow yet unmelted was gleaming pale.
• 19.002 And leaves are yet swinging,
• 19.002 And elves are yet singing
• 19.005 when a part of the story which he did not yet know came in.
• 19.007 Yet I wish he were banished from the world!’
• 19.009 and yet more tales,
• 19.015 Yet I thank you.’
• 19.016 yet we thank you,’
• 19.018 Yet even that place could not long delay him now,
• 19.021 There is a long road yet,’ said Gandalf.
• 19.031 Yet feet that wandering have gone

Richard Blackwelder only noted four uses of up in his A Tolkien Thesaurus, and I wonder at the amount of curating he did. It’s an old, old word. It’s a noun, verb, adjective, preposition, and — most commonly — adverb. It has seven different entries in the OED, and is used almost four hundred times in our work.

• 1.004 and the family hushed it up;
• 1.005 until Bilbo Baggins was grown up,
• 1.006 and adventures sprouted up all over the place wherever he went,
• 1.010 that sailed up into the air without breaking
• 1.017 They used to go up like great lilies
• 1.023 After a while he stepped up,
• 1.028 and hung his things up
• 1.032 he said when he caught sight of Dwalin’s green hood hanging up.
• 1.050 Then they hung up two yellow hoods
• 1.058 and things piled up on big trays,
• 1.062 “Now to clear up!’
[01.063]”
• 1.066 Pound them up with a thumping pole;
• 1.068 up the chimney,
• 1.068 of the smoke-rings he had sent up the wind over The Hill.
• 1.080 And men looked up with faces pale;
• 1.083 Then something Tookish woke up inside him,
• 1.083 Suddenly in the wood beyond The Water a flame leapt up –
• 1.084 He got up trembling.
• 1.092 he began to feel a shriek coming up inside,
• 1.092 All the dwarves sprang up,
• 1.116 up along the River Running,’
• 1.121 and live up to Gandalf’s recommendation.
• 1.122 up the Running River as far as the valley
• 1.123 and gold was probably getting scarce up there,
• 1.123 One day he flew up into the air
• 1.123 and when he reached the woods they all went up
• 1.123 The river rushed up
• 1.123 he has piled it all up
• 1.124 as best we could up
• 1.142 they all got up.
• 1.142 One thing he did make his mind up about
• 1.142 was not to bother to get up very early
• 1.145 when he woke up.
• 2.001 Up jumped Bilbo,
• 2.001 and without bothering to wake him up
• 2.002 and washed up.
• 2.006 I have had enough to do with washing up for fourteen!”
• 2.009 up to and not exceeding
• 2.023 “Up you two get,
• 2.027 when up came Gandalf very splendid on a white horse.
• 2.030 Wind got up,
• 2.031 The wind broke up the grey clouds,
• 2.039 Up the hill they went;
• 2.042 he got right up to the fire –
• 2.046 and time’s been up our way,
• 2.049 Then Bilbo plucked up courage
• 2.052 “What is it?” said the others coming up.
• 2.058 picking up a skewer.
• 2.060 and he picked him up by the toes
• 2.062 holding him right way up,
• 2.072 up came Balin.
• 2.075 As each dwarf came up
• 2.079 He caught up a big branch
• 2.079 but he was sent spinning up into the top of some bushes,
• 2.079 when Tom kicked the sparks up
• 2.080 But just at that moment William came up behind
• 2.080 all neatly tied up in sacks,
• 2.080 and Bilbo up in a bush,
• 2.088 “Shut up!” said they,
• 2.089 “Shut up yerself!” said Tom,
• 2.111 They followed the tracks up the hill,
• 2.116 they did not turn their noses up
• 2.117 Then they brought up their ponies,
• 3.007 only one vast slope going slowly up
• 3.007 and up to meet the feet of the nearest mountain,
• 3.013 and he looked up at the stars.
• 3.026 when sun has been all day on the snow far up above.
• 3.040 He held up the map
• 4.001 that led up into those mountains,
• 4.002 they were still going up
• 4.002 and up
• 4.002 and up.
• 4.002 It was getting bitter cold up here,
• 4.004 when storms come up from East
• 4.005 They were high up
• 4.006 we shall be picked up by some giant
• 4.010 who knew that caves up
• 4.012 So they all got up
• 4.012 He lit up his wand
• 4.013 and set dancing up by the roof to amuse them.
• 4.015 At that he woke up with a horrible start,
• 4.016 It had wakened him up wide
• 4.017 even than when the troll had picked him up by his toes.
• 4.028 “Up to no good, I’ll warrant!
• 4.030 Might I ask what you were doing up
• 4.035 right up to the roof,
• 4.041 Then Gandalf lit up his wand.
• 4.045 said poor Mr. Baggins bumping up
• 4.050 But they were seen by the goblins that ran silently up behind,
• 5.002 Very slowly he got up
• 5.002 but neither up nor down it could he find anything:
• 5.002 and gave himself up to complete miserableness,
• 5.007 On we go!’ So up he got,
• 5.010 That pulled him up sharp
• 5.011 in from outside to lie up
• 5.011 and joined them up with passages,
• 5.014 Suddenly up came Gollum
• 5.026 Up, up it goes,
• 5.026 Up, up it goes,
• 5.034 and he was so pleased that he made up one on the spot.
• 5.036 Gollum brought up memories of ages
• 5.062 There he found the ring he had picked up
• 5.075 Time’s up!’ he said.
• 5.082 We can’t go up the tunnels so hasty.
• 5.083 Well, hurry up!’
• 5.104 but he saw that all was up,
• 5.104 back up the dark passage down which he had come,
• 5.106 coming up the slope.
• 5.107 pick himself up,
• 5.108 Painfully he got up,
• 5.110 Bilbo pricked up his ears.
• 5.119 With a spring Gollum got up
• 5.122 on their left as they went up.
• 5.126 There was Gollum sitting humped up right
• 5.128 welled up
• 5.134 began to go up again,
• 5.140 Go back up the passage!’ some shouted.
• 5.145 got up, and ran for the door.
• 5.148 while bewildered goblins were still picking up
• 6.003 He had just made up his mind that it was his duty,
• 6.010 tripped up your feet,
• 6.011 Then why didn’t you pick him up again?’
• 6.014 Bilbo’s reputation went up a very great deal
• 6.025 He wanted to know how the wizard had turned up again,
• 6.026 Evidently people had given up going that way,
• 6.026 because it had been found quite safe up to now.
• 6.027 a more or less decent giant to block it up again,’
• 6.028 and worked up the best magic he could
• 6.031 and no one has ever managed to block it up.
• 6.034 And we are still pretty high up.
• 6.041 that here stood right up the mountain slope
• 6.048 The moon was up
• 6.052 Up the trees quick!’ cried Gandalf;
• 6.052 or were slender enough to swarm up.
• 6.052 and up they went as high as ever they could trust the branches.
• 6.052 if you had seen the dwarves sitting up
• 6.052 Dwalin and Balin had swarmed up a tall slender fir
• 6.055 and up trees!
• 6.056 and give Mr. Baggins a hand up!’
• 6.057 and let Bilbo scramble up
• 6.058 A wolf snapped at his cloak as he swung up,
• 6.058 and leaping up at the trunk,
• 6.063 and letting the people up the trees escape,
• 6.064 stuck up in a tall tree
• 6.067 He swept up into the air,
• 6.067 at either hand leaped up to follow him.
• 6.067 They circled up
• 6.067 and yelping come up faint from far beneath him.
• 6.071 Then suddenly goblins came running up yelling.
• 6.082 who were scrambling up now as far as they ever dared to go.
• 6.083 and up they went together above the tumult
• 6.084 The flames about the trees sprang suddenly up
• 6.084 They went up
• 6.085 and they were high up
• 6.090 said Bilbo sitting up
• 6.090 and are up
• 6.092 Soon another eagle flew up.
• 6.092 and to begin to think of being torn up for supper like a rabbit,
• 6.099 The eagles had brought up dry boughs for fuel,
• 6.099 or cutting up meat,
• 6.100 He slept curled up on the hard rock
• 7.001 The next morning Bilbo woke up
• 7.001 He jumped up to look at the time
• 7.002 and saw that the birds were already high up
• 7.024 Up slope
• 7.025 had begun to spring up,
• 7.026 I should swell up as big again as I am!’
• 7.032 trotted up across the grass
• 7.045 and fell golden on the garden full of flowers that came right up to the steps.
• 7.054 and are not up to any mischief
• 7.054 what are you up to,
• 7.082 Hurry up!
• 7.083 he got up
• 7.087 gasped Bombur puffing up behind.
• 7.088 I suppose that is all that there were up the trees.
• 7.09 You may be making it all up,
• 7.092 and set them up near the fire.
• 7.104 Suddenly up stood Gandalf.
• 7.105 you must not stray outside until the sun is up,
• 7.109 Get up lazybones,’
• 7.11 Up jumped Bilbo.
• 7.111 We have been about looking for Beorn ever since the sun got up;
• 7.117 but on the other side is a cliff standing up from a swirling channel.
• 7.117 and then miles back again to pick up the tracks again.
• 7.12 Then he woke up when everyone else was asleep,
• 7.121 He picked up the hobbit
• 7.121 Not eaten up by Wargs or goblins or wicked bears yet I see’ ;
• 7.122 and right back up into the mountains –
• 7.133 sticking up out of the long grass,
• 7.134 The land began to slope up
• 7.134 and up,
• 7.142 So cheer up Bilbo
• 7.142 Cheer up Thorin
• 7.149 You must either go through or give up your quest.
• 7.151 keep your spirits up,
• 8.006 but they soon gave that up.
• 8.006 so they gave up fires
• 8.014 The boat is sure to be tied up,
• 8.015 but it looks to me as if it was just drawn up on the bank,
• 8.019 Fili picked up the hook
• 8.029 The shadows swallowed it up,
• 8.035 if they could have kept up their courage
• 8.041 but they hoisted him up into the lowest branches
• 8.041 and up he had to go as best he could.
• 8.042 He could hear the dwarves shouting up at him from far below,
• 8.044 so that from its top the trees seemed to swell up
• 8.045 which they were too heavy to climb up and feel.
• 8.047 He woke up suddenly
• 8.047 and sat up scratching his head.
• 8.048 Why ever did I wake up!’
• 8.049 If you hadn’t waked up,
• 8.052 I hope I never wake up again.’
• 8.054 Even Bombur got up,
• 8.055 gasped Bombur puffing up behind.
• 8.059 every one of them got up
• 8.059 and it went up
• 8.062 Up they all jumped.
• 8.065 They were just giving up hope,
• 8.065 and he found it was the hobbit curled up fast asleep.
• 8.071 Up they got again;
• 8.072 The fires leaped up
• 8.074 But he soon made up his mind
• 8.074 so that when he got up he fell over.
• 8.075 who had been busy tying him up while he dozed,
• 8.08 Having made up his mind he crept along as cleverly as he could.
• 8.089 and a toe shot up
• 8.092 He could not get up at the brutes
• 8.092 While he was picking up stones,
• 8.092 with all its legs curled up.
• 8.097 You’ll never catch me up your tree!
• 8.098 but then you must remember that he had to make it up himself,
• 8.099 Bilbo plucked up his courage
• 8.104 The worst part of the job was getting up on to the long branch
• 8.104 he scrambled up –
• 8.105 If he cut the string which hung him up,
• 8.107 between them they started to haul up first one dwarf
• 8.109 and kept back those that crawled up.
• 8.112 and had tied him up again
• 8.113 Don’t stay up there
• 8.113 For he saw spiders swarming up all the neighbouring trees,
• 8.114 who was being propped up on either side by his cousin Bifur,
• 8.123 the spiders suddenly gave it up,
• 8.125 Some of them even got up
• 9.001 They got up
• 9.003 Bilbo had all he could do to keep up with the torches,
• 9.003 to catch them up
• 9.004 and he only made up his mind not to desert his friends
• 9.011 He could not keep up with the hunting elves
• 9.011 he could pick up a living
• 9.014 Soon however he made up his mind
• 9.019 and other goods came up the rivers,
• 9.019 From Lake-town the barrels were brought up the Forest River.
• 9.019 and poled or rowed up the stream;
• 9.024 and it would not do to send up poor stuff!’
• 9.041 while the song is up!’
• 9.052 which pulled up the portcullis at the water-gate
• 9.053 Up from mere and pool at night!
• 9.053 Up the heavens cold and steep;
• 9.055 He came up again spluttering
• 9.055 for you cannot count friends that are all packed up in barrels.
• 9.056 He heard the creak of the water-gate being hauled up,
• 9.056 but at last the jostling crowd began to break up
• 9.059 up the side of his barrel
• 9.059 Up he crawled like a drowned rat,
• 9.062 He no longer thought twice about picking up a supper uninvited
• 9.064 They were making up a raft of barrels,
• 10.002 filled with the waters of the river which broke up
• 10.006 Only from the map did Bilbo know that away up there,
• 10.007 that came up the great river from the South
• 10.009 Soon men would come up from the South
• 10.009 to be taken back up the stream to the Wood-elves’ home.
• 10.012 so after a few more groans he got up
• 10.034 Others took up the song
• 10.036 and of fiddles mixed up with it.
• 10.036 So he gave up to him his own great chair
• 10.037 A large house was given up to Thorin
• 10.038 and Smaug chopped up into little pieces.
• 10.04 up the Forest River with their cargoes,
• 10.045 and off they went north up the lake
• 11.001 they rowed right up the Long Lake
• 11.001 some miles up the river,
• 11.013 searching for paths up the mountain-side.
• 11.014 but at its inner end a flat wall rose up that
• 11.016 and up the newly found path,
• 11.017 hauling up what they needed from below with their ropes.
• 11.017 while Bofur was hauled up to the higher camp.
• 11.017 Bombur would not come up either the rope or the path.
• 11.019 Out up there a silence reigned,
• 11.021 and yet they would not give it up
• 11.031 the others shouted to be hauled up the ropes
• 11.035 Thorin hurried up.
• 11.037 Then Thorin stepped up
• 12.009 if only I could wake up
• 12.01 He did not wake up of course,
• 12.011 Wisps of vapour floated up
• 12.017 while the little hobbit toiled back up the long tunnel.
• 12.018 He picked Bilbo up
• 12.019 as if it was an old volcano that had made up its mind
• 12.019 but up the long tunnel came the dreadful echoes,
• 12.02 and wondered why he had never blocked it up.
• 12.021 and up towards the Front Gate.
• 12.022 and up he soared blazing into the air
• 12.027 Up came Bofur,
• 12.027 Up came Bombur,
• 12.027 Up came some tools
• 12.029 Flickering fires leaped up
• 12.032 that men had come up from the river and the lake
• 12.033 and that it was no good giving up their quest yet.
• 12.034 and stirring up Smaug’s wrath so soon.
• 12.035 I should want hundreds of years to bring it all up,
• 12.04 and see what he is up to.
• 12.04 Perhaps something will turn up.
• 12.043 Cheer up Bilbo!’
• 12.064 But plucking up courage he spoke again.
• 12.07 and to keep his end up,
• 12.071 while far up
• 12.078 and fled up the tunnel.
• 12.079 and fast though he sped up the slope,
• 12.081 In the meanwhile his friends did their best to cheer him up;
• 12.082 he picked up a stone
• 12.091 to stop up our entrance,
• 12.1 and getting up he kicked away the stone that wedged the door.
• 12.103 and up the water you came without a doubt.
• 13.002 So several of the dwarves got up
• 13.009 and did not dare to get up,
• 13.012 Bilbo got up,
• 13.023 going up into the gloom.
• 13.043 and up,
• 13.043 up,
• 13.055 The road from the Gate along the left edge of the stream seems all broken up.
• 13.055 up the right bank,
• 13.055 and climbed up to the post.
• 13.059 I hope he is not up on the Mountain looking down at us!’
• 13.065 It scrambled steeply up,
• 13.068 said Dori, who was always looking up towards the Mountain’s peak,
• 14.004 Something is happening up there.’
• 14.013 A hail of dark arrows leaped up
• 14.02 it told him of tidings up
• 14.024 A vast steam leaped up,
• 14.032 and people further off took up the cry:
• 14.032 Up the Bowman,
• 14.034 had stirred the dragon up against them deliberately!
• 14.039 up the river to the Forest
• 14.043 higher up the shore;
• 15.016 They all sprang up
• 15.024 for the peaceful winding up of these affairs.
• 15.028 and hauled stuff up with ropes.
• 15.031 come up to the valley’s head
• 15.031 and climb slowly up.
• 15.033 and as it echoed up towards them it seemed
• 15.044 and marching up the valley.
• 16.007 That night Bilbo made up his mind.
• 16.008 I wish we could have a fire up here as they have
• 16.017 when up came elves
• 16.036 stood up in amazement.
• 16.045 but keep your heart up!
• 16.046 when he clambered up the rope again –
• 16.047 At midnight he woke up Bombur;
• 16.047 in turn rolled himself up
• 17.032 coming up the valley at a great pace.
• 17.032 and held up their hands
• 17.04 Winter thunder on a wild wind rolled roaring up
• 17.048 driving wildly up between the arms of the Mountain,
• 17.065 Soon they too took up the cry,
• 17.065 Many wondering eyes looked up,
• 18.003 He sat up painfully.
• 18.005 Suddenly he was aware of a man climbing up
• 18.012 and picked him lightly up.
• 18.016 He looked up as Bilbo came beside him.
• 18.02 that I woke up when I did.
• 18.032 There now Dain son of Nain took up his abode,
• 18.033 was given up to Bard;
• 18.053 At last they came up the long road,
• 19.019 and rain came up to meet them.
• 19.025 when they had dug it up.
• 19.043 and much wealth went up