Took

“Tooks” and “Took’s” were automatically flagged as uncommon – I have found all of the instances of “Took” the family name as well (which our filter though was the quite common past participle of “take”).

  • 01.004 was the famous Belladonna Took,
  • 01.004 one of the three remarkable daughters of the Old Took
  • 01.004 that long ago one of the Took ancestors must have taken a fairy wife.
  • 01.004 that the Tooks were not as respectable as the Bagginses,
  • 01.005 Not that Belladonna Took ever had any adventures
  • 01.005 got something a bit queer in his make-up from the Took side,
  • 01.006 not since his friend the Old Took died,
  • 01.016 to be good-morninged by Belladonna Took’s son,
  • 01.017 that gave Old Took a pair of magic diamond studs
  • 01.017 Old Took used to have them on Midsummer’s Eve.
  • 01.018 Indeed for your old grandfather Took’s sake,
  • 01.083 Then something Tookish woke up inside him,
  • 01.094 even to Old Took’s great-grand-uncle Bullroarer,
  • 01.096 The Took side had won.
  • 01.097 I had a great-great-great-grand-uncle once, Bullroarer Took, and –
  • 01.119 but so far still Tookishly determined to go on with things.
  • 01.142 The Tookishness was wearing off,
  • 06.030 at Old Took’s midsummer-eve parties,
  • 06.050 (on the Took side)
  • 12.009 said the least Tookish part of him.
  • 17.060 (with the more Tookish part of his mind)
  • 18.054 The Tookish part was getting very tired,
  • 19.038 except by his nephews xx and nieces on the Took side,

Update 2016.02.11

Torch

  • 01.079 The trees like torches blazed with light.
  • 02.036 as it might be a fire or torches twinkling.
  • 04.023 and by torches along the walls,
  • 04.039 “The torches will soon be relit.”
  • 04.044 The blink of red torches could be seen
  • 04.048 in front dropped their torches
  • 04.049 they put out their torches
  • 05.087 He might even venture into places where the torches were lit
  • 06.077 Shrivel and scorch! A fizzling torch
  • 07.092 and soon came back carrying torches
  • 07.094 The light of the torches
  • 07.096 and the torches were put out,
  • 08.048 only lit with torches on the trees
  • 08.054 it seemed plain that torches
  • 08.058 and there were torches fastened
  • 08.063 and torches.
  • 08.070 hundreds of torches
  • 09.001 of many torches all round them,
  • 09.003 Bilbo had all he could do to keep up with the torches,
  • 09.003 Suddenly the torches stopped,
  • 13.017 and took the torch;
  • 13.019 from the wavering light of his torch.
  • 13.022 and the spark of his torch vanished from the sight
  • 13.023 His torch dropped head downwards
  • 13.031 Gloin lit several more torches,
  • 13.032 and a dropped torch,
  • 13.033 Each now gripped a lighted torch;
  • 13.041 and holding their torches above their heads
  • 13.043 that fled from the approach of their torches
  • 13.049 by their smoking torches flurried over them;
  • 13.049 They flung their pale torches to the ground,
  • 15.029 and torches

Torchlight

“Torchlight” is a less-common than 10,000 word – and “torch-light” is less common than the first 100,000.  I am fascinated that both appear side by side in Chapter 9.

  • 09.003 well behind their torch-light
  • 09.005 with red torch-light,
  • 09.011 in torchlight)
  • 09.022 taking the torchlight with them
  • 13.044 and far beyond the reach of their torch-light.

Two-word word, one word, or hyphenated are all acceptable in OED.

“ˈtorch-ˌlight, n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/203510. Accessed 21 September 2017.

Trapdoor

  • 09.018 and covered with great oaken trapdoors.
  • 09.019 Bilbo discovered the trapdoors
  • 09.020 the elves cast them through the trapdoors,
  • 09.037 The rest went into the adjoining cellar with the trapdoors.
  • 09.051 (nearly all of them had already disappeared through the dark trapdoor)
  • 09.055 Then suddenly the trapdoors fell to with a boom