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Belladonna
01:18
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Bilberry
02:28
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As quickly as they could they scrambled off the beaten way and up into the deep heather and bilberry brushwood on the slopes above, until they came to a small patch of thick-growing hazels. (LOTR 1: XII)
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Birch
02:29
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The next day at the hour of sunset Aragorn walked alone in the woods, and his heart was high within him; and he sang, for he was full of hope and the world was fair. And suddenly even as he sang he saw a maiden walking on a greensward among the white stems of the birches; and he halted amazed, thinking that he had strayed into a dream. (LOTR Appendix A : I (v))
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Blackberry
01:40
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They will be harvesting and blackberrying, before we even begin to go down the other side at this rate. (Hobbit IV)
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Boxwood
01:12
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Bracken
03:25
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She [Niënor] stood still a moment as in wonder, and then, in a swoon of utter weariness, she fell as one stricken down into a deep brake of fern. And there amid the old bracken and the swift fronds of spring she lay and slept, heedless of all. (CoH XV)
They were pushing through a sea of bracken with tall fronds rising right above the hobbit’s head (Hobbit VI)
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Bramble
04:17
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The Wizard’s vale “had become a wilderness of weeds and thorns. Brambles trailed upon the ground, or clambering over bush and bank, made shaggy caves where small beasts housed”. (LOTR 3: VIII)
In habitats long impacted by environmentally destructive activities of Sauron they encountered “thickets and wastes of brambles”. (LOTR 4: VII)
When Frodo and Sam scrambled on the eastern slopes of the Ephel Duath they found themselves in a polluted and dying land. But it was not yet dead. In the valleys there were areas in which “low scrubby trees lurked and clung, coarse grey grass-tussocks fought with the stones, and withered mosses crawled on them; and everywhere great writhing, tangled brambles sprawled” and the two remaining members of the quest certainly experienced their “hooked barbs that rent like knives” (LOTR 6: II)
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Broom
01:38
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Butterbur
02:28
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“The men of Bree seemed all to have rather botanical (and to the Shire-folk rather odd) names, like Rushlight, Goatleaf, Heathertoes, Appledore, Thistlewool and Ferny (not to mention Butterbur). Some of the hobbits had similar names. The Mugworts, for instance, seemed numerous.” (LoTR 1: IX)
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Buttercup
02:00
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Old Tom in summertime walked about the meadows gathering the buttercups, running after shadows. (TATB 1)
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Cabbage
01:43
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Camellia
01:58
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Campion
02:41
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Then Tuor went up the wide stairs, now half-hidden in thrift and campion, and he passed under the mighty lintel and entered the shadows of the house of Turgon; and he came at last to a high-pillared hall. (UT 1: I)
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Cardamom
01:39
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Carrot
00:26
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