- 12.032 but the door withstood his searching eye,
- 18.024 so that nothing could withstand him,
word
Woodland
- 08.048 A woodland king was there with a crown of leaves,
- 08.057 in the woodland feast;
- 08.071 sat a woodland king with a crown of leaves upon his golden hair,
- 09.005 in the spring he wore a crown of woodland flowers.
- 15.033 and they caught faintly the fragrance of woodland flowers
Woodmen
I am intrigued that the word is not “woodsmen”, nor is it found anywhere but Chapter 6.
- 06.063 not only because of the brave woodmen
- 06.063 They thought they were friends of the woodmen,
- 06.071 They thought a battle with the woodmen was going on;
Worm
- 01.001 filled with the ends of worms
- 01.097 and fight the wild Were-worms
- 01.123 and wicked worm called Smaug.
- 12.040 Every worm has his weak spot,’
- 12.089 in the old Worm’s diamond waistcoat.’
- 13.010 you worm!’
- 15.036 His foe is dead, the Worm of Dread,
- 15.042 The Worm of Dread is slain
Arrow-Wound
- 06.094 and healed their lord from an arrow-wound.
This one is its own two-word word, an entry in OED under “arrow”, with behyphenated examples.
“arrow, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2017. Web. 5 September 2017.
Wriggle
- 05.011 wriggling
- 05.073 and wriggled
- 08.105 Wriggling along the branch
Wring
- 15.039 The melody of harps they wrung.
Yes
yes
- 05.059 my preciouss, yes, yess, yesss.
- 05.059 my preciouss, yes, yess, yesss.
- 05.059 yess,
Us
One of the most common words, but not as Gollum says it! It’s a sound-play word which communicates both Gollum’s otherness and the echoey, huge, mysterious underground cavern. This is one of the hisses that is the same in 1937 and 1951 – and in fact they occur in exactly the same phrase in the same numbered paragraph:
- 05.059 It’s got to ask uss a quesstion,
The 1937 version is 1937.05.059.
Updated 2016.02.11
Trick
trick
- 05.115 but it’s tricksy.
- 05.117 and tricksy
words that you were saying 