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Contents

• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Abbreviations for the Translation Editions Used
• Preface
• Endnotes

• Hobbiton
• Bag End
• Under-Hill
• Mirkwood
• Running River
• Rivendell
• Last Homely House
• Wilderland
• Chapter Endnotes

• An Unexpected Party
• Over Hill and Under Hill
• Barrels out of Bond
• Originally published in The Hobbitonian Anthology, expanded, revised.
• Inside Information
• Return Journey
• Chapter Endnotes

• Larder
• Seed-cake
• Cram
• Pork-Pie
• History of Mince-pies
• “Mince-pies and Cheese” was first published in Beyond Bree, November 2022, p. 5.
• When Tomatoes Became Pickles
• Beverages
• Chapter Endnotes

Low Philological Jests

• Audacious
• William “Bill” Huggins
• Trolls
• The Name Huggins
• William
• The Names of Those in His Entourage
• Mutton
• The Butchered Speech of the Trolls
• Golfimbul
• The “Sun on the Daisies” Riddle
• Were-worms
• Ringwinner
• Chapter Endnotes

Exotic Vocabulary

• Deep-Elves
• Half a Mind
• Staggerment
• Fireplace Fender
• Lazy Lob
• Chapter Endnotes

Elephants, Great and Small

• Euphemisms
• Great Elephants!
• Bless us and splash us!
• Yule-tide
• Christmas Tree
• Anachronisms in The Hobbit
• Chapter Endnotes

A Tough Nut to Crack

• Breaking the Fourth Wall
• Hall
• The Hall in Bilbo’s House
• Beorn’s Wide Wooden Halls
• The Halls of Waiting to Which Thorin Goes
• The Town-hall of Lake Town
• Yawning Mouth
• Originally published as “Hidden Faces in The Hobbit, ” Beyond Bree, July 2022, pp. 6-8. Expanded and revised.
• Chapter Endnotes

Appendices

• Version Check
• Bibliography of Editions Used
• Illustration Credits
• Index
• Endnotes