Vocabulary I
A male deer.
What is a hart?
Hostility
What is enmity?
A work of fiction that does not represent the real world.
What is a fantasy?
Calculating creatures who love gold and jewels.
What are Dwarves?
This creature has more adventure loving Took in him than his Baggins relatives would like.
Who is Bilbo?
Friends or buddies.
What are cronies?
Writing done in an ancient script.
What is a rune?
Crude comedy in which the humor comes from horseplay or violent activity such as slapping or fighting.
What is slapstick?
Furry footed and short, these creatures excel at being quiet and remaining unseen.
What are Hobbits?
The name of the dragon who lies on top of the dwarves' ancestors' riches.
Who is Smaug?
What is flummoxed?
Pleasing to the taste.
What is toothsome?
The use of hints or clues in a story to suggest what action is to come.
What is foreshadowing?
These creatures are the first to know the news no matter how far away it happens. They are fun loving and enjoy singing silly songs.
What are the Elves of the Valley?
This character kills the dragon with his ancestor's arrow.
Who is Bard?
A spider; an ill-natured person.
What is an attercop?
A reward or compensation.
What is remuneration?
A short saying that states a basic truth about life.
What is a proverb?
These creatures are divided by politics and insist that the dwarves share their treasure to repay them for having killed the dragon.
What are the Lake men?
This character single handedly changes the course of the battle at the end.
Who is Beorin?
Decaying flesh of a dead body.
What is carrion?
A blockhead, dolt, or dunce.
What is a tomnoddy?
A figure of speech in which an animal is given human characteristics.
What is personification?
Fierce wolf like creatures who are friends of the goblins they change the course of the battle when they charge in.
What are Wargs?
This character hopes that his cousin Dain will appear so he won't have to share the 1/14th portion of the treasure he has promised with the lake men and elves.
Who is Thorin?