Abstrakt:
The aim of this paper is to analyse compound lexemes appearing in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings from the viewpoint of word forms and word classes. The theoretical part of this thesis discusses and critically judges approaches towards compounding of various linguists in order to establish the most suitable approach to use in the analysis of the texts. In the analytical part, quantitative and qualitative research is performed and individual findings from the corpus, included in the appendix, are analysed according to the established approaches from the theoretical part.
