- 07.014 and down the lines of the wide-armed oaks
Hyphenated in its sub-entry in OED.
“wide, adj.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/228891. Accessed 21 September 2017.
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Amble
- 02.028 and then a dwarf or a farmer ambling by on business.
Wide-sweeping
- 13.048 and round a wide-sweeping turn –
Hyphenated in its sub-entry in OED.
“wide, adv.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/228893. Accessed 21 September 2017.
Wine-barrel
- 09.037 Some of them were wine-barrels,
These words do not properly concatenate with a hyphen, according to the good folks at OED. This is another Tolkien invention – so subtle as to never distract from the action, enough to remind us we are reading a translation.
Hyphenated in its mention in the OED.
“wine, n.1.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/229302. Accessed 21 September 2017.
Alley
- 01.123 and lanes, and tunnels, alleys, cellars, mansions and passages.
Wolf-ally
- 07.122 with their wolf-allies into the lands
This does not appear in OED – it’s a JRRT original.
Alder
- 19.013 Lullaby! Lullaby! Alder and Willow!
Wolf-glade
- 07.122 From the burnt wolf-glade
This is, of course, a JRRT original.
Air-holes
OED does not list “air-hole” as a variant spelling of “air hole”, but the example texts use the hyphen from the 1700s to the 1900s (and “airhole” as well)
- 09.038 made a great fuss about his air-holes
“air hole, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2017. Web. 5 September 2017.
Wolf-guards
- 06.070 But the wolf-guards did not leave the trees.
This word is a JRRT original.
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