Hobbit Vocabulary
 

I've recently re-read "The Hobbit" (it's one of my favorite books).
Every once in a while I came to a word that I did not know the meaning.

Here is my list of words from "The Hobbit" that I did not know:

Prosy
- Dull; commonplace - arousing no interest, attention, curiosity or excitement.

Porter
- A dark beer resembling light stout, made from malt browned or charred by drying at a high temperature.

Bewuthered
- Appears to be a word unique to "The Hobbit". It's context would suggest it is synonymous with "Bewildered".

Palpitating
- To pulsate with unusual rapidity from exertion, emotion, disease, etc.; flutter: His heart palpitated wildly.

Flummoxed
- Confused; Perplexed

Bracken
- Type of fern or an area overgrown with ferns and shrubs.

Eyrie
- The nest of a bird, such as an eagle, built on a cliff or other high place.

Tuppence
- A very small amount.

Attercop
- A type of spider or a peevish, ill-natured person.

Tomnoddy
- A fool or a dunce.

Slowcoach
- Someone who moves slowly; a "slowpoke"

Turnkey
- A person who has charge of the keys of a prison; jailer.

Solemnities
- State or character of being solemn; earnestness; gravity; impressiveness: the solemnity of a state funeral.

Mattocks
- A digging tool with a flat blade set at right angles to the handle that can also be used as a weapon.

reading is the surest way to a large vocabulary. And Tolkien was a master language monger.

i enjoyed the books as well as the movies - i know you can't put everything into the movies though.

most of those are actual words. a few are particular to the shire

I liked the term 'second breakfast'. and elevenses, although again, I believe that's a term in common usage. I know some members of my family use it.

I should discover if a Spanish translation renders "second breakfast" as "desaydos."

How about Mathom, farthing, nob, and thain?

Clockwork Orange has some great words too; like "bezoomy" ...

There's even a glossary at the back of the book. Many of the words are bastardized Russian.

Yeah, it's like a Russian/cockney/gypsy creole slang.

Real horrorshow.

:::tolchoks your gulliver:::

I enjoyed all the books and am a big fan of LotR universe and I too enjoyed the buckets of new vocabulary dumped on me at the age of 13.

I just noticed your signature, freshness. I like that.

Reminds me of the Simpsons:

"Marge, there's the truth :headshake, and there's the truth :)"

Yup - many of them are in regular usage in the UK still.

I can buy porter less than a minute's walk from my flat. It is a specialist off licence though. Link to the incomparable The Offie.

Btw tuppence for is simply a way of saying two pence, so it has a literal meaning, rather than just a small amount.

I agree with Cloud though, nothing like a book to broaden your vocabulary.