- Cities and buildings
- Fields, plains and deserts
- Forests
- Hills and mountains
- Islands and promontories
- Lands, realms and regions
- Rivers and lakes
- Seas and oceans
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Race
A word unique to the Hobbits
Pronunciation
ma'thom ('th' is pronounced as English 'father')
Meaning
An item whose owner has no practical use for it, but has no wish to discard it, either1
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MathomsItems of no immediate useAn old word from the lexicon of the Hobbits, referring to an item that had no particular immediate use, but whose owner had no wish to throw away. These mathoms therefore tended to collect over time in the homes of Hobbits, and would not infrequently be given away as gifts to others. For particularly unusual or curious mathoms, the Hobbits maintained a Mathom-house at Michel Delving to store and exhibit them. It was here that Bilbo Baggins' mithril coat was kept for several decades after his return to the Shire in III 2942. Bilbo recovered it from the Mathom-house and later gave it to Frodo to wear during the Quest of Mount Doom (thereby finding a use for it, and thus by definition bringing its mathom status to an end). Notes
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