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Raven (noun)

lfsaldenbirch , ,

Lest we forget – the OED had something to say about the croak of ravens

  • 15.007 I only wish he was a raven!’
  • 15.009 But the ravens are different.
  • 15.010 I knew many among the ravens of the rocks
  • 15.013 He was an aged raven of great size.
  • 15.014 Now I am the chief of the great ravens of the Mountain.
  • 15.018 and listen to the raven’s news.
  • 15.027 guided by a raven,
  • 15.027 the ravens brought them constant tidings.
  • 16.004 when the ravens brought news
  • 16.045 There is news brewing that even the ravens have not heard.
  • 17.044 Not even the ravens knew of their coming

Raven (verb)

lfsaldenbirch ,

It has a transitive use (the object being the things being seized) and two intransitive subtleties:

 1b.intr. To plunder; to seek after or for spoil or booty; to go about with intent to plunder; (later also more generally) to maraud, rampage.

2a.intr. To eat voraciously; to feed hungrily or greedily; (also) to prey on or upon. Also fig.

It is used intransitively in our work.

  • 17.054 There a host of Wargs came ravening

“raven, v.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2015. Web. 25 June 2015.

Ravenhill

lfsaldenbirch , ,
  • 11.005 in a height called Ravenhill.
  • 11.006 to the feet of Ravenhill.
  • 13.054 and so to a road running towards Ravenhill.
  • 15.010 This very height was once named Ravenhill,
  • 17.054 near to the watch-post on Ravenhill.
  • 17.060 He had taken his stand on Ravenhill among the Elves –
  • 18.001 He was lying on the flat stones of Ravenhill,