Just one mention – but everyone’s favorite with pickles!
- 01.057 And just bring out the cold chicken
word
Salad
It goes so well with pork-pie! OED defines a salad thus:
1. a. A cold dish of herbs or vegetables (e.g. lettuce, endive), usually uncooked and chopped up or sliced, to which is often added sliced hard-boiled egg, cold meat, fish, etc., the whole being seasoned with salt, pepper, oil, and vinegar.
The word ultimately comes from the Latin for “salt”.
- 01.055 and salad,’ said Bombur.
“salad, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, March 2016. Web. 25 March 2016.
Cheese
Only a very little cheese in the book, I’m afraid.
- 01.054 and cheese,’
- 02.116 Now they had bread and cheese,
Wine
Most of the wine, bless it, is in Mirkwood. Wine-barrel, of course, has its own uncommon entry.
- 01.051 A little red wine,
- 01.065 Splash the wine on every door!
- 01.090 all praise to his wine
- 09.018 were very fond of wine,
- 09.018 The wine,
- 09.019 he learned how the wine
- 09.023 and taste the new wine that has just come in.
- 09.025 It must be potent wine to make a wood-elf drowsy;
- 09.025 but this wine,
- 09.035 The wine of Dorwinion brings deep
- 09.048 and his best wine
- 09.063 and a leather bottle of wine
- 18.048 I have drunk much of your wine
Butter
“Buttertub” has its own entry. “Butter” is not as Chapter-1-centric as most of today’s words.
- 01.047 on a round of buttered scones,
- 06.100 and butter
- 07.116 (with masses of butter
- 08.074 and butter
- 09.037 butter, apples, and all sorts of things,
Coffee
The word “coffee” probably comes to us from Turkish, but before that the origins of the word are obscured in Arabic or Ethiopian origin. Caffeea arabica is native to the Arabian peninsula and Ethiopia.
Tolkien does not refer to coffee outside of chapter 1, nor in The Silmarillion, The Lord of the Rings, or even in The Father Christmas Letters. I assume that he enjoyed coffee from reading Letter 332 to his son Michael describing a flat that Merton College of Oxford provided him:
(7) The use of 2 beautiful common-rooms (at a distance of 100 yards) with free writing paper, free newspapers, and mid-morning coffee. It all sounds too good to be true (Kindle Locations 8842-8843)
To be honest, this mention of coffee – made from a tropics-loving plant which probably couldn’t grow in the Shire – I count as more evidence that Tolkien told this tale to his children (at least the beginning chapters) right off the cuff. Dwarf names he already knew and which didn’t match the world the story later turned out to inhabit, coffee which he might have wanted as a guest at supper but which didn’t match the botany of that land. “Papa, tell us another story.” Yes, little ones. I will always tell you another story and dredge it up out of any word-hoard that my young-parent-tired brain can access. Pass the coffee, please.
- 01.046 and one for coffee,
- 01.047 A big jug of coffee had just been set
- 01.056 and coffee,
“coffee, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, March 2016. Web. 25 March 2016.
Supper
In a search for “sup” and its forms, only “supper” is found. The uncommon “supper-time” is found in its own entry.
- 01.046 and whether they would all stay to supper.
- 01.061 I suppose you will all stay to supper?’
- 02.031 and Thorin muttered something about supper,
- 02.035 and there was mighty little left for supper,
- 02.037 and anything was better than little supper,
- 02.059 who had already had a fine supper,
- 02.063 if only you won’t have me for supper.”
- 02.064 He had already had as much supper as he could hold;
- 03.024 Supper is preparing over there,” he said.
- 03.026 But the dwarves were all for supper
- 06.038 or we shall be made into supper,
- 06.092 and to begin to think of being torn up for supper like a rabbit,
- 07.090 but you deserve a supper for the story all the same.
- 07.094 There they had a supper,
- 07.113 and the dwarves were having supper,
- 07.115 and none till after supper!
- 09.062 He no longer thought twice about picking up a supper uninvited
- 16.012 and for a soft bed after a good supper!
Beer
It was William who had had lots of beer.
- 01.035 A little beer would suit me better
- 01.037 Bilbo plumped down the beer
- 02.047 purloined the beer
- 02.064 also he had had lots of beer.
Table
Tables – full of good things to eat and a venue for fellowship… until chapter 13, when tables turn into rotten things and are never mentioned again.
- 01.029 They had not been at table long,
- 01.037 and Dwalin were talking at the table like old friends
- 01.043 while the four dwarves sat round the table,
- 01.059 and a couple of small tables
- 01.068 or under the table,
- 01.092 knocking over the table.
- 01.101 On the table
- 05.054 Fish on a little table,
- 05.054 man at table sitting on a stool,
- 07.093 under the table)
- 07.093 and he probably had them low like the tables
- 07.093 so soon they were all seated at Beorn’s table,
- 07.094 and on the table were two tall red beeswax candles.
- 07.096 They sat long at the table
- 09.011 from store or table
- 09.024 and see if it is fit for the king’s table.
- 09.025 and sat down at a table on which two large flagons were set.
- 09.026 then he laid it on the table
- 09.026 but soon his head too nodded to the table,
- 09.040 I haven’t seen him at the tables tonight.
- 10.028 looking at long tables filled with folk.
- 10.030 Pressing forward before the Master’s table they cried:
- 10.036 Even Bilbo was given a seat at the high table,
- 13.046 Tables were rotting there;
Cup
Cups may be necessary for tea, but in this tale it’s the golden cup of Thror that deserves the most attention!
- 01.025 and put out another cup
- 01.122 and cups,
- 12.016 He grasped a great two-handled cup,
- 12.017 but still he clutched the cup,
- 12.019 The dwarves were still passing the cup
- 12.020 Then he missed the cup!
- 12.034 for bringing away a cup
- 12.063 for that cup last night?’
- 12.096 the great golden cup of Thror,
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