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The Lord of the Rings
Prelude. The Hobbit
A Guide to Tolkien's Novel
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Arkenstone (of Thrain): 'Heart of the Mountain'; great white gem found by the dwarves in the Lonely Mountain, a
treasure of inestimable sentimental (to Dwarves) and financial value (to all):
"It was like a globe with a thousand facets; it shone like silver in the firelight, like water in the sun,
like snow under the stars, like rain upon the Moon!"
"a globe [...] filled with moonlight [...] in a net woven of the glint of frosty stars"
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cram: type of food made by the Lake-men for long journeys;
"biscuitish, keeps good indefinitely, is supposed to be sustaining, and is certainly not entertaining,
being in fact very uninteresting, except as a chewing exercise"
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Glamdring: 'Foehammer', 'Beater' (to Goblins); Gandalf's
sword, once belonged to the king of Gondolin, forged there for the Goblin wars
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mithril: (to Elves), 'Moria-silver', 'true-silver';
precious metal, very light but incomparably strong
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moon-letters: rune-letters which can only be seen by
the same moonlight of the same season they were written under
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Orcrist: 'Goblin-cleaver', 'Biter' (to Goblins); Thorin's
sword from Gondolin
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Ring: magic ring found by Bilbo in the Misty Mountains, which
makes its bearer invisible
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Sting: Bilbo's fine Elvish sword, which he found on his
adventure in the Trolls lair and thus baptised after killing a giant spider with it
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