
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.
via The Fellowship of the Ring
Submitted by: mathomsandmurmors
WHAT A NERD AMIRITE?
In Old English maðm means a treasure or precious thing. Tolkien used Old English as the language of Rohan, and the...
I just need to start calling my whole room a Mathom Room.