mathom

• 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. —  The Lord of the Rings
• And Hobbit names and special words are intended to be pronounced accordingly: for example, Bolger has g as in bulge, and mathom rhymes with fathom . —  The Lord of the Rings
• Most notable were the names of days, months, and seasons; several other words of the same sort (such as mathom and smial) were also still in common use, while more were preserved in the place-names of Bree and the Shire. —  The Lord of the Rings
• Thus mathom is meant to recall ancient English máthm , and so to represent the relationship of the actual Hobbit kast to R. kastu . —  The Lord of the Rings

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