- 03.041 and cunning handwriting,
word
Half-open
- 12.094 not far down from the half-open door
“Half-” as a combining for is combined with “open” in the OED.
“half-, comb. form.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/83403. Accessed 14 September 2017.
Half-imagined
- 05.009 or half-imagined dark things coming out of them.
Although many things combine with “half-” in the OED, this one is not found there. It’s not unique to Tolkien, but we are using the JRRT tag to include those words that he may not have invented, but certainly used and which are not dictionary-supported.
Half-finished
- 02.019 leaving his second breakfast half-finished
“Half-” as a combining form with nouns and adjectives has its very own OED entry, which includes “half-finished”.
“half-, comb. form.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/83403. Accessed 14 September 2017.
Hack
- 08.123 hacking at their legs,
Gush
- 14.024 a gushing whirl,
Gunpowder
Perhaps the strangest out of place word in the book – Gandalf escapes the goblis with a flash and a smell like gunpowder – but is there any other way to describe the smell of fireworks without saying directly that’s what Gandalf used?
- 04.016 a smell like gunpowder,
Gundabad
- 17.044 and beneath the great mountain Gundabad of the North,
Gully
- 03.008 There were gullies that they could almost leap over,
Guardroom
- 13.066 that was made here as a guardroom.
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