- 09.007 They were surly
word
Surpass
- 12.042 could hardly have surpassed it,
Swarm
- 06.052 or were slender enough to swarm up.
- 06.052 and Balin had swarmed up a tall slender fir
- 08.113 For he saw spiders swarming up all the neighbouring trees,
Swirl
- 07.117 but on the other side is a cliff standing up from a swirling channel.
- 10.007 protected from the swirl of the entering river
- 13.048 and it flowed swirling
- 13.051 It swirled over
- 14.015 Back swirled the dragon.
- 17.048 Ere long the vanguard swirled
- 17.054 while still the great bats swirled
Underhill
I have met folks in rural Vermont names Underhill…
- 19.036 of Bag-End, Underhill, Hobbiton.
Wain
In this context, the Wain (which means wagon) is a constellation. It is not mentioned in either The Lord of the Rings or in The Silmarillion.
- 10.006 where the stars of the Wain were already twinkling,
Warg
I imagine that Wargs are terrible genetic and magical experiments on wolves, as were Orcs to Elves, Trolls to Ents.
- 06.059 But even the wild Wargs
- 06.060 in the dreadful language of the Wargs.
- 06.060 and then all the Wargs
- 06.061 The Wargs
- 06.061 Then they often got the Wargs to help
- 06.061 The Wargs had come to meet the goblins
- 06.062 and even the Wargs dared not attack them
- 06.063 The Wargs were angry
- 06.063 So the Wargs had no intention of going away
- 06.067 and looked down upon the ring of the Wargs,
- 06.070 All round the clearing of the Wargs fire was leaping.
- 07.117 with the Wargs
- 07.118 if he leads all the Wargs
- 07.121 Not eaten up by Wargs or goblins or wicked bears yet I see’ ;
- 07.122 he had caught a Warg
- 07.122 with Wargs for the dwarves,
- 07.124 and the Warg?’
- 07.131 and Wargs run swifter than ponies.
- 17.041 and Wargs are
- 17.054 There a host of Wargs came ravening
- 17.058 The Wargs were scattered
- 18.051 and the Wargs had vanished from the woods,
Wilderland
What an evocative, delicious, elegantly simple name. It makes me want to be bewildered. I include here references to “the Wild” as a location – or perhaps a state of being. I look forward to the day when I can expand the concordance to include “wild” in its own right – it is used beautifully in this work.
- 03.003 before we can come into Wilderland beyond.
- 06.050 over the Edge of the Wild on the borders of the unknown.
- 06.059 (for so the evil wolves over the Edge of the Wild were named)
- 07.151 Remember you are over the Edge of the Wild now,
- 18.051 The Wild was still the Wild,
Swoop
- 06.068 they swooped on them
- 06.082 Over them swooped the eagles;
- 06.093 and swooped off.
- 07.006 the eagles swooped one by one
- 12.029 The dragon swooped
- 13.023 when a black shape swooped at him,
- 14.014 Then down he swooped
- 14.015 Another swoop
- 14.023 The dragon swooped once more lower than ever,
Swordsman
- 17.049 for a sweeping stroke by a goblin swordsman.