Les Trous-prisons de la Comté

[Tilkalin]

Dans la "Nomenclature of the Lord of the Rings" (Hammond & Scull, RC, p. 772), il y a une entrée pour Lockholes:

The hobbit version of "lock-up (house)" : a place of detention.

Ce terme évoque donc clairement une cellule.

Dans The Ring of Words, également (p. 154-155) :

The lockholes are the Shire equivalent of prison. In early drafts of "The Scouring of the Shire (LR VI, viii) it sounds as if the Lockholes had existed before Saruman's ruffians took over the Shire ("they've made the old Lock-holes into a regular fort") ; but in the final text Farmer Cotton says "there's the Lockholes, as they've made into prisons".
In the late 16th century, both lock-hole and key-hole were introduced as terms fort the hole into which a key is inserted, but it was "keyhole" that became standard, and lockhole was available for Tolkien to adapt. The new meaning is his own creation, but it makes perfect sense. The word is respectably old, it is reminiscent of lock-up (a word that would be too moderne to use, being recorded only from the early 19th century), and it is well-grounded hitorically, given that hole can mean "dungeon or prison-cell" (OED : HOLE n.1, sense 2b, first recorded in 1535) - and, of course, among hobbits a hole is the equivalent of a building among the "Big Folk".

La note sur le manuscrit du "Nettoyage de la Comté" est intéressante. Toutefois, "Perry-le-Bigorneau" est inspiré d'un poème plus ancien, "The Bumpus", écrit vers 1928 pour les Tales and Songs of Bimble Bay.

De fait, ce mot est-il spécifiquement lié au contexte de la Comté dans "Perry-le-Bigorneau" ou bien date-il de l'écriture de "The Bumpus" ?

Quelqu'un aurait-il ce poème en sa possession ?