- 08.033 a hind and fawns as snowy white as the hart had been dark.
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Hilt
- 01.075 To hide in gems on hilt of sword.
- 02.113 and jewelled hilts.
- 05.004 his hand came on the hilt of his little sword –
Hill-side
Once hyphenated and twice not? This apparent contradiction arouses my curiosity!
- 06.067 down the hillsides from their gate
- 06.086 and there with the light of the moon on a hill-side rock or a stream
- 09.018 from the hillside there was a water-gate.
To my surprise, the hypenated or two-word form are attested in OED, the single-word form is not… until it is itself one member of a combination word
1890 Daily News 20 Dec. 5/6 The name ‘Hillside men’..applied to the Fenians.
“hill-side, n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/87009. Accessed 14 September 2017.
High-walled
- 12.032 and the little high-walled bay had kept out his fiercest flames.
A perfectly proper OED combined word.
“high, adj. and n.2.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/86850. Accessed 14 September 2017.
Hiding-place
- 05.084 in his hiding-place he kept a few wretched oddments,
This has a hyphen just so in OED
“hiding-place, n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/86756. Accessed 14 September 2017.
Hide-and-seek
- 13.010 Stop playing hide-and-seek!
A game well known and attested by the 1600s
“hide-and-seek, n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/86727. Accessed 14 September 2017.
Hi!
- 08.064 Hi! hobbit, confusticate you,
Hew
- 09.005 in a great hall with pillars hewn out of the living stone
Here
Of course “here” is common, but the trollish dialect makes it uncommon. I would love to have a Word Fan who is an expert in such things comment on how the trollish dialect compares to a Cockney one.
- 02.050 ‘Ere, ‘oo are you?” it squeaked,
Herb
- 08.036 and herbs with pale leaves
These Mirkwood plants are not wholesome enough to eat.
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