Word |
Page 1st Used |
Meaning as used in The Lord of the Rings |
Context of use, sentence used in |
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Appendix A |
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subjection |
1048 |
The act of subjecting, or the state or fact of being subjected (being under the dominion, rule, or
authority, as of a sovereign, or lord, a conqueror). |
At first the Númenoreans had come to Middle-earth as teachers and friends of lesser Men afflicted
by Sauron; but now their havens became fortresses, holding wide coastlands in subjection. |
besotted |
1049 |
To make sottish; cause to dote; infatuate; stupefy as with drink; one whose mind is dulled by
excessive drinking; to make foolish or stupid. |
At length Ar-Pharazôn listened to this counsel, for he felt the waning of his days and was
besotted by the fear of Death. |
invested |
1057 |
To surround (a place) with military forces or works so as to prevent approach or escape; hem in,
as in besieging. |
For many years Umbar was invested, but could not be taken because of the sea-power
of Gondor. |
askance |
1058 |
Sidewise; with a side glance; with a glance of disfavor and suspicion (often figurative). |
'For the high men of Gondor already looked askance
at the Northmen among them; and it was a thing unheard of before that the heir of the crown, or any son of the King, should wed one of lesser and alien race. |
plighted |
1072 |
Pledge or solemn engagement; to give in pledge; often to pledge (one's troth) in engagement to
marry; also, to bind by a pledge or engagement, now esp. of marriage. |
After there upon that hill they looked east to the Shadow and west to the Twilight, and they
plighted their troth and were glad. |
troth |
1072 |
Faithfulness, fidelity, or loyalty' also, one's word or promise; one's word pledged in engaging
one's self to marry. |
See text above for plighted. |
cleave |
1072 |
To be attached or faithful. |
But neither, lady, is the Twilight for me; for I am a mortal, and if you will cleave
to me, Evenstar, then the Twilight you must also renounce." |
perforce |
1073 |
By force or violence; also, by force of necessity, or of necessity. |
"For if I will not go now, then I must soon go perforce. |
nill |
1074 |
Not to will, wish, or like; oppose or be unwilling. |
There is now no ship that would bear me hence, and I must indeed abide by the Doom of Men, whether
I will or I nill: the loss and the silence. |
straitened |
1075 |
Confined in a narrow place; having too little room. |
But in the days of Léod, father of Eorl, they had grown to be a numerous people and were again
somewhat straitened in the land of their home. |
hearers |
1077 |
One who hears, a listener. |
We need no hearers. |
cold-drake |
1083 |
Drake = Dragon. A Fire-Drake is a fire breathing dragon so a Cold-Drake is presumably a dragon
that does not breathe fire. |
At last Dáin I, together with Frór his second son, was slain at the door of his hall by a great
cold-drake. |
mattocks |
1085 |
A kind of pick with an arm or blade like that of an adz, and commonly with another arm opposite
either like a narrow ax-blade or terminating in a point. |
Coming late and fresh to the field the mailed warriors of Náin, Grór's son, drove through the Orcs
to the very threshold of Moria, crying 'Azog! Azog! ' as they hewed down with their mattocks all who stood in their way. |
guile |
1085 |
Insidious cunning; craft; deceit; treachery; also, a stratagem. |
But Náin was half blind with rage, and also very weary with battle, whereas Azog was fresh and
fell and full of guile. |
halt |
1086 |
Lame; crippled; limping; to be lame. |
He had one eye blinded beyond cure, and he was halt
with a leg-wound; but he said: 'Good! |
pen-forms |
1126 |
The shape of hand-written letters, esp. those influenced by the writing instrument or the way it
is used. |
As with their speech the Dwarves made use of such scripts as were current and many wrote the
Fëanorian letters skilfully; but for their own tongue they adhered to the Cirth, and developed written pen-forms from them. |
