Friday, December 30, 2011

I may have a problem with mathoms (Tolkien)

...the museum at Michel Delving.  The Mathom-house it was called: for anything that Hobbits had no immediate use for, but were unwilling to throw away, they called a mathom.  Their dwellings were rather apt to become  rather crowded with mathoms...

The Lord of the Rings, p18

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