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Hawthorn-berries

lfsaldenbirch , , , ,
  • 06.039 not even hawthorn-berries.

The fruits of the hawthorn are pomes, not technically berries.  The most famous hawthorn of British legend is the Holy Thorn of Glastonbury, the site of King Arthur’s resting place.

While “pome” can refer to many different fruits such as apples and pears and hawthorn-berries, there is no separate word for the pome of a hawthorn, so this word is a specific word in Bilbo’s language that we do not have in English.

“pome, n.1.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/147472. Accessed 14 September 2017.

Haul

lfsaldenbirch , ,
  • 08.020 Fili hauled the rope back slowly,
  • 08.028 and one of you haul on the rope
  • 08.107 between them they started to haul up first one dwarf
  • 09.052 Some had already gone to haul on the ropes
  • 09.056 He heard the creak of the water-gate being hauled up,
  • 11.017 hauling up what they needed from below with their ropes.
  • 11.017 while Bofur was hauled up to the higher camp.
  • 11.031 the others shouted to be hauled up the ropes
  • 12.027 hauling madly on the ropes.
  • 15.028 and hauled stuff up with ropes.

Hauberk

lfsaldenbirch ,

 a. A piece of defensive armour: originally intended for the defence of the neck and shoulders; but already in 12th and 13th c. developed into a long coat of mail, or military tunic, usually of ring or chain mail, which adapted itself readily to the motions of the body.

  • 17.031 in a hauberk of steel mail

“hauberk, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2015. Web. 27 June 2015.

Harp

lfsaldenbirch , ,
  • 01.070 and with Thorin’s harp wrapped
  • 01.070 It was a beautiful golden harp,
  • 01.078 And harps of gold; where no man delves
  • 01.082 To win our harps
  • 08.070 and the harps!’
  • 08.071 and some were harping
  • 10.035 His harp shall be restrung,
  • 10.036 and there was much shouting as well as the music of harps
  • 11.004 There was no laughter or song or sound of harps,
  • 13.034 and finding still hanging there many golden harps
  • 15.035 brought forth harps
  • 15.039 The melody of harps they wrung.