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Burrowes

June 26, 2015September 17, 2015 lfsaldenbirch 10K, brief, Middle-earth, word
  • 19.036 Messrs Grubb, Grubb, and Burrowes
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Burrahobbit

June 26, 2015September 17, 2015 lfsaldenbirch 10K, brief, Middle-earth, word
  • 02.055 “A burrahobbit?”
  • 02.056 “What’s a burrahobbit got
  • 02.073 “No burrahobbits,
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Burglar-expert

June 26, 2015September 5, 2017 lfsaldenbirch 10K, hyphen, JRRT, word
  • 01.117 supposing the burglar-expert

No OED entries for this one, of course, this is pure JRRT!

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Bunny

June 26, 2015September 17, 2015 lfsaldenbirch 10K, brief, word
  • 07.121 Little bunny is getting nice
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Bungo

June 26, 2015September 17, 2015 lfsaldenbirch 10K, brief, word
  • 01.005 after she became Mrs. Bungo Baggins.
  • 01.005 Bungo, that was Bilbo’s father,
  • 02.026 What his father Bungo would have thought of him,
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Bullroarer

June 26, 2015September 17, 2015 lfsaldenbirch 10K, Middle-earth, word

It is a Middle Earth word – yet it’s also a loud instrument with a wonderfully eerie sound!

  • 01.094 even to Old Took’s great-grand-uncle Bullroarer,
  • 01.095 Bullroarer’s gentler descendant was reviving
  • 01.097 Bullroarer Took, and – ‘
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Bulge

June 26, 2015September 17, 2015 lfsaldenbirch 10K, brief, word
  • 05.011 with big bulging blind eyes,
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Bulbous

June 26, 2015September 17, 2015 lfsaldenbirch 10K, brief, word
  • 08.005 were horrible pale bulbous sort of eyes.
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Buffet

June 26, 2015September 17, 2015 lfsaldenbirch 10K, brief, word
  • 10.010 and buffeted he could hardly stand or stumble
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Brushwood

June 26, 2015September 17, 2015 lfsaldenbirch 10K, brief, word
  • 06.072 and brushwood round the tree-trunks.
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