Megan Fontenot asks the question over on Twitter: What are some words you learned from reading Tolkien’s works?
That could be a large number. One easy way to find a bunch of them is to look in the list my pronouncing dictionary didn’t know. Throw out the proper names, the invented languages, and (as much as I wanted to leave them in) things like “tinbone” and “thinbone”. That gave me 37 words, which is plenty to start with:
belike brock bullroarer cornel corslet deeping darkling dishevelled draught dwimmer ent etten eyot eyrie fen flet footpads habergeon leechcraft mark mathom surcoat swart hyrne thrawn trothplighted garth unlading vambrace weapontake weregild weskit wang whortle withy woses writhen
Fun fact: all but two of those words are currently underlined in red by the WordPress spell-checker.
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