- 09.065 creaked and fretted.
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Freckle
- 11.030 its pale yellow breast freckled with dark spots.
Fray
- 18.023 and bore him out of the fray.
Fragrance
- 15.033 and they caught faintly the fragrance of woodland flowers
Fourth-day
- 07.133 early on the fourth-day,
Just so. A compound word, not a counting word followed by the name of the thing being counted. Hmmm.
It is an attested compound word, specifically coined by the Society of Friends to mean “Wednesday”. Beorn did not mean “on a particular day of the week”, but “the fourth day of your travels from here.” I’m calling a JRRT-original use.
“four, adj. and n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/73969. Accessed 13 September 2017.
Four-legs
- 05.053 four-legs got some.
This hint at “cat” is not attested in OED, although my mother-in-law often calls the four-legged members of the family this. “Four-legged”, by the way, is in the dictionary.
“four, adj. and n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/73969. Accessed 13 September 2017.
Fortify
- 12.073 but doubtless one so fortified has thought of that.’
- 15.026 in fortifying the main entrance,
Fork
Dain’s dwarves of the Iron Hills all wear their beards forked to go into the battle.
- 01.058 and forks
- 01.064 Blunt the knives and bend the forks!
- 06.088 when it is suddenly picked out of the pan on a fork
- 06.089 Also eagles aren’t forks!’
- 06.090 forks,
- 17.031 Their beards were forked
Forge
- 14.005 is forging gold,’
- 14.022 from the forges
- 17.044 in all the mountains there was a forging
Forest-track
- 07.151 Stick to the forest-track,
Unattested in OED.
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