- 12.029 and black rock-shadows danced.
This word is not found in OED.
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Rock-gates
I marvel at the skill it must take to carve out functioning rock-gates – I imagine them all carven of one piece, like the amazing wooden toys which are, for example, a ball captured in a cage.
- 14.044 the head of their host passed the rock-gates
This word is not found in OED.
Rock-face
- 11.021 He would do nothing but sit with his back to the rock-face
- 11.032 and fell on the smooth rock-face.
Its own main entry, with or without hyphens, in OED.
“rock face, n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/275103. Accessed 19 September 2017.
Rock-chamber
- 13.071 In the rock-chamber
Hyphenated or not in the OED.
“rock, n.1.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/166697. Accessed 19 September 2017.
River-valley
- 04.004 in a river-valley;
This OED sub-entry may be hyphenated or not.
“river, n.1.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/166422. Accessed 19 September 2017.
River-toll
- 10.018 Except for occasional squabbles about river-tolls
This word is not found in OED.
River-shore
- 06.062 and along the river-shores.
As a sub-entry in the OED, sometimes one word, sometimes two, hyphenated by Tennyson.
“river, n.1.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/166422. Accessed 19 September 2017.
River-door
- 09.052 began to sing a song round the river-door.
No such word in OED.
Riddle-game
I love that in Westron there is a specific name for this game.
- 05.077 that the riddle-game was sacred
The sub-entry for this word is a two-word word, with a space not a hyphen, except in one example … from Tolkien (Fellowship of the Ring). I’m giving him the credit for the hyphenated spelling.
“riddle, n.1.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/165631. Accessed 19 September 2017.
Riddle-competition
I wonder if this is the same word in Westron as riddle-game, and therefore we are see the translator (Tolkien) varying his translation of that word a bit.
- 06.019 in the riddle-competition,
The word is not found in OED.
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