word

Lake-town

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Note that in almost all instances “Lake-town” is the proper name of the town, well and good.  But once, in 14.002, it is a word in itself a kind of town, the uncapitalized “lake-town Esgaroth”.  “Lake-town” is not attested in OED.

  • 09.019 From Lake-town the barrels were brought up the Forest River.
  • 09.020 and floated back to Lake-town,
  • 09.064 down the stream to Lake-town.
  • 10.009 into the little bay of Lake-town.
  • 10.009 in Lake-town.
  • 10.017 I suggest Lake-town,’
  • 10.038 coming down the river to Lake-town.
  • 10.040 in Lake-town,
  • 10.045 three large boats left Lake-town,
  • 11.019 and tools of many sorts from Lake-town,
  • 12.085 to take to Lake-town all right,
  • 12.087 from Lake-town
  • 14.002 The men of the lake-town Esgaroth
  • 14.031 In the Lake-town we have always elected masters
  • 18.034 to the Master of Lake-town;
  • 19.043 and Lake-town was refounded

Lake-man

lfsaldenbirch , ,
  • 09.048 is pushed into the river for the Lake-men to feast on for nothing!’
  • 10.003 and of the bickerings of the Lake-men
  • 12.059 Lake-men,
  • 12.059 of those miserable tub-trading Lake-men,
  • 12.067 though he suspected that the Lake-men
  • 12.087 think of the Lake-men.’
  • 13.063 It was made by the Lake-men for long journeys.)
  • 15.020 you will not trust the Master of the Lake-men,
  • 15.028 that the joined armies of the Lake-men
  • 15.050 and the assistance that we received of the Lake-men
  • 17.058 Down too came many of the Lake-men,
  • 17.061 and the Lake-men

Attested in OED.

“lake, n.4.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/105168. Accessed 14 September 2017.

Lair

lfsaldenbirch , ,
  • 03.035 from the trolls’ lair,
  • 04.032 the sword which came from the Trolls’ lair.
  • 07.102 and swept above the dragon’s lair:
  • 11.005 other than the wilderness he had made about his lair.
  • 12.020 to his lair.
  • 12.021 he sped from his deep lair through its great door,
  • 12.032 Slow and silent he crept back to his lair
  • 12.094 from which the only way out led through the dragon’s lair
  • 12.102 Smaug had left his lair

Kneel

lfsaldenbirch ,

It’s always Bilbo who kneels – and in three such different attitudes.  In the last one, do you also see him kneeling as if to receive the accolade?

  • 01.092 the poor little hobbit could be seen kneeling on the hearth-rug,
  • 08.009 Bilbo kneeling on the brink
  • 18.018 Bilbo knelt on one knee filled with sorrow.