EXCLAMATIONS (please give the utterer and the context, if you can).
1. Lawks! (Merry, Crickhollow).
2. Garn! (A mild expletive preferred in ruffian and orkish circles).
3. Blast! (Uttered by Tolkien when he stumbled/tripped in the dark being Father Christmas (as reported by his children).
4. Fool of a Took! (Gandalf, in Moria).
5. Damn the boy! (Tolkien again, when Christopher noticed he'd got he colour of a dwarf's hood/beard wrong).
6. Ai! ai! (Legolas, upon seeing a Balrog)
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