- 03.045 the Longbeards, and my first ancestor:
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Long-lived
- 12.084 They were a long-lived
“Long-lived” has its own OED entry.
“long-lived, adj.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/110052. Accessed 15 September 2017.
Long-forgotten
- 01.077 To claim our long-forgotten gold.
- 01.144 To find our long-forgotten gold.
This word . has it’s own sub-entry in OED under “long”.
“long, adj.1 and n.1.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/109975. Accessed 15 September 2017.
Long-bodied
- 07.092 and several large long-bodied grey dogs.
This word has its own proper sub-entry under “long” in the OED.
“long, adj.1 and n.1.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/109975. Accessed 15 September 2017.
Lonesome
- 11.020 Bilbo found sitting on the doorstep lonesome
- 13.062 It’s a cold lonesome place,’
Lone-lands
- 02.028 Now they had gone on far into the Lone-lands,
- 02.028 in the Lone-lands they had been obliged to camp when they could,
Obviously it’s a JRRT creation as a place name – but as a descriptive, it’s also not in the OED.
Lofty
- 06.068 but could not reach their lofty seats,
- 12.101 till their little lofty camping ground,
Locust
Shout-out for a rather biblical image. We don’t see any real locusts in the secondary world of Middle Earth, and I wonder if they exist unmentioned and Bilbo (the diarist) used this simile or if the word was chosen by the translator (Tolkien).
- 17.041 like a sea of locusts.
Loathsome
- 08.081 that these loathsome creatures were speaking
Lizard
The entire realm of possibilities of dragon-insults springs to mind. This is exactly what young dragons would call one another.
- 12.059 or I’m a lizard.
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