Word |
Page 1st Used |
Meaning as used in The Lord of the Rings |
Context of use, sentence used in |
tackle |
105 |
Equipment, apparatus, or gear in general. |
See text above for stores. |
tamarisk |
657 |
A plant of the old-world tropical genus Tamarix, esp. T. gallica, native in the Mediterranean
region, an ornamental shrub or small tree with slender, feathery branches. |
Many great trees grew there, planted long ago, falling into untended age amid a riot of careless
descendants; and groves and thickets there were of tamarisk and pungent terebinth, of olive and of bay; and there were junipers and myrtles; and thymes that g |
tang |
846 |
A strong taste or flavor; a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself; a pungent or
distinctive odor; a suggestion of something. |
There comes a breath out of the South; there is a sea-tang in it, faint though it be.
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tankard |
156 |
A large drinking vessel. |
He had a tall tankard
in front of him, and was smoking a long-stemmed pipe curiously carved. |
tarried |
234 |
To delay; also, to wait for, or await. |
that tarried in Arvernien; |
tarrying |
79 |
To delay; also to wait for, or await. |
We are Exiles, and most of our kindred have long ago departed and we too are now only
tarrying here a while, ere we return over the Great Sea. |
teeming |
898 |
Prolific, fertile, abounding or swarming with something; hence, existing in swarms or great
numbers. |
Yet they knew that all the hills and rocks about the Morannon were filled with hidden foes, and
the shadowy defile beyond was bored and tunneled by teeming broods of evil things. |
tempest |
537 |
An extensive current of wind rushing with great velocity and violence, esp. one attended with
rain, hail or snow; a violent storm; a violent commotion, disturbance, or tumult; a violent outburst. |
Then the Orcs screamed, waving spear and sword, and shooting a cloud of arrows at any that stood
revealed upon the battlements; and the men of the Mark amazed looked out, as it seemed to them, upon a great field of dark corn, tossed by a tempest of war, a |
terebinth |
657 |
A moderate sized anacardiaceous tree, Pistacia terebinthus, of the Mediterranean regions, having
pinnate leaves and panicles of inconspicuous flowers, and yielding Chian (of or pertaining to Chios, an island in the Aegean Sea) turpentine. |
See text above for tamarisk. |
testy |
592 |
Headstrong; also, prone to impatience and irritation, or irritably impatient of contradiction or
opposition. |
'All right, I'll tackle Strider by the camp-fire: he's less testy.
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thane |
813 |
Servant, retainer, soldier, thane, man; in early English history, a member of any of several
classes of men ranking between earls and ordinary freemen, and holding the lands of the king or lord by military service; in Scottish history, a person, ranking w |
with thane and captain rode Thengel's son: |
The Fellowship of the ring |
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The Return of the King |
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The Two Towers |
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thickets |
75 |
A thick or dense growth of shrubs, bushes, or small trees; a thick coppice. |
See text above for tussocky. |
thither |
236 |
To or toward that place or point. |
herself was set, who thither came |
thongs |
330 |
A narrow strip or hide or leather, used as a fastening, as the lash of a whip etc.; also, a
similar strip of some other material. |
In its right hand was a blade like a stabbing tongue of fire; in its left it held a whip of many
thongs. |
thrawn |
394 |
Twisted; crooked. |
Before the travellers lay a wide ravine, with great rocky sides to which clung, upon shelves and
in narrow crevices, a few thrawn trees. |
throes |
38 |
A violent spasm or pang (a sudden, brief sharp pain, or a spasm or severe twinge of pain); also, a
sharp attack of emotion. |
Her face looked as if she was in the throes
of thinking out a really crushing parting remark; but all she found to say, turning round on the step, was: 'You'll live to regret it, young fellow! |
thronged |
355 |
A great number of things crowded or considered together; also to fill or occupy with as with a
crowd. |
Upon the further side there rose to a great height a green wall encircling a green hill
thronged with mallorn-trees taller than any they had yet seen in all the land. |
thwart |
436 |
To be adverse, in opposition, or at variance; hindrance. |
Will you aid me or thwart me? |
tidings |
81 |
Happenings, tidings, news; the announcement of an event or occurrence not previously made known.
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The tidings
were mostly sad and ominous: of gathering darkness, the wars of Men, and the flight of the Elves. |
tidy |
23 |
Considerable. |
'There's a tidy
bit of money tucked away up there, I hear tell,' said a stranger, a visitor on business from Michel Delving in the Westfarthing. |
tilth |
758 |
The act or operation of tilling; tillage; cultivation; land under cultivation. |
The townlands were rich, with wide tilth
and many orchards, and homesteads there were with oast and garner, fold and byre, and many rills
rippling through the green from the highlands down to Anduin. |
tipsy |
158 |
Affected by liquor so as to stagger slightly or be without full control of the movements and
faculties; intoxicated, but not to complete drunkenness or stupor. |
See text above for ostler. |
tithe |
779 |
A tenth part, or any infinitely small part, or anything. |
They are sparing only a tithe of their strength. |
token |
7 |
Something serving to represent or indicate some fact, event, feeling, etc.; a sign; a symbol.
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And as the days of the Shire lengthened they spoke less and less with the Elves, and grew afraid
of them, and distrustful of those that had dealings with them; and the Sea became a word of fear among them, and a token of death, and they turned their faces |
too much of a good thing |
21 |
An act, behavior, etc., spoilt by its excess. |
There were some that shook their heads and thought this was too much of a good thing
; it seemed unfair that anyone should possess (apparently) perpetual youth as well as (reputedly) inexhaustible wealth. |
tor |
932 |
A rocky eminence; a hill. |
There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor
high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. |
tortuous |
376 |
Twisting, winding. Full of twist, turns and bends. |
See text above for fen. |
tossocky |
75 |
A tuft or clump of growing grass or the like; abounding in tussocks. |
But this hindered them; for the grass was thick and tussocky, and the ground uneven,
and the trees began to draw together into thickets. |
traceries |
762 |
Any delicate interlacing work of lines, threads, etc., as in carving, embroidery, etc. |
See text above for capitals. |
traffic |
73 |
Transportation of goods for the purpose of trade, by sea or land; hence, trade between different
countries or place, or commerce. |
This way was not much used, being hardly fit for carts, and there was little traffic
to the Woody End. |
trammel |
878 |
To catch or entangle in or as in a trammel or net. |
See text above for hutch. |
trapessing |
24 |
To walk in a slovenly manner, esp. with the dress trailing or draggled; walk aimlessly or idly
about. |
See text above for prentice. |
trappings |
669 |
A cloth or covering for a horse, etc., esp. when ornamental in character, or a comparison.
Articles of equipment or dress, esp. of an ornamental character. |
His trappings of scarlet and gold flapped about him in wild tatters. |
treachery |
11 |
Deceiver, cheater; deceiving, perfidious (deliberately faithless), or faithless; violating faith
or betraying trust; disloyal, traitorous; untrustworthy. |
But after ages alone in the dark Gollum's heart was black, and treachery was in it.
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treachery |
901 |
deceiver, cheater; deceiving, perfidious (deliberately faithless), or faithless; violating faith
or betraying trust'; disloyal, traitorous; untrustworthy. |
See text above for base. |
treat |
587 |
To handle or discuss an affair with a view to settlement; negotiate; also, to deal with in speech
or writing. |
If you wish to treat
with me, while you have a chance, go away, and come back when you are sober! |
tresses |
379 |
Tress - a plait or braid of the hair or head; also, any long lock or curl of hair, esp. of a
woman, not plaited (a braid, as of hair or straw) or braided. |
Then the Lady unbraided one of her long tresses, and cut off three golden hairs, and
laid them in Gimli's hand. |
trestles |
681 |
A frame used as a support, consisting typically of a horizontal beam or bar fixed at each end to a
pair of spreading legs; sometimes, the whole frame which supports the top of a table. |
Light tables were taken from the walls and set up on trestles and laden with gear.
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tributary |
901 |
Paying or requiring to pay tribute; hence, furnishing subsidiary aid; consideration paid by one
sovereign or state to another in acknowledgement of submission or as the price of peace, security, protection. |
West of the Anduin as far as the Misty Mountains and the Gap of Rohan shall be tributary
to Mordor, and men there shall bear no weapons, but shall have leave to govern their own affairs. |
tribute |
263 |
A tax or impost paid by one prince or state to another in acknowledgement of submission or as the
price of peace, security, and protection; rent or homage paid in money or an equivalent by a subject to his sovereign or a vassal to his lord. |
"They pay a tribute
of horses," he answered, "and send many yearly to Mordor, or so it is said; but they are not yet under the yoke. |
troth |
699 |
Faithfulness; fidelity, or loyalty; also, one's word or promise; to plight one's troth or word to;
engage by a contract. |
For it seems less evil to counsel another man to break troth
than to do so oneself, especially if one sees a friend bound unwitting to his own harm. |
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. |
trothplighted |
989 |
Engaged by troth or promise, esp. of marriage; betrothed. |
Therefore they shall be trothplighted before you all.' |
trotting |
69 |
The gait of a horse, etc., when trotting; in general, a jogging gate between a walk and a run,
quick, continuous movement. |
Presently Sam appeared, trotting
quickly and breathing hard; his heavy pack was hoisted high on his shoulders, and he had put on his head a tall shapeless fell bag, which he called a hat. |
trove |
250 |
Something of value found. |
'You speak for me also,' he cried, and turning to Elrond he said: 'The Wise may have good reason
to believe that the halfling's trove is indeed the Great Ring of long debate, unlikely though that may seem to those who know less. |
truncheon |
326 |
Broken piece. A piece broken off, esp. from a spear or lance; the shaft of a spear. |
But even as the orc flung down the truncheon
and swept out his scimitar, Andúril came down upon his helm. |
tryst |
265 |
An appointment to meet at a certain time and place; also an appointed meeting. |
But such a thing has not happened before, that Gandalf broke tryst
and did not come when he promised. |
tumult |
539 |
The commotion or disturbance of a multitude, usually with noise. |
Gamling the Old looked down from the Hornburg, hearing the great voice of the dwarf above all the
tumult. |
tunic |
278 |
A garment like a shirt or a gown. |
Bilbo put it on him, and fastened Sting upon the glittering belt; and then Frodo put over the top
his old weather-stained breeches, tunic, and jacket. |
turves |
7 |
Turf. A piece cut or torn from the surface of grassland, with grass, etc. growing on it; a sod;
often the grassy covering of a grave. |
The oldest kind were, indeed, no more than built imitations of smials, thatched with dry
grass or straw, or roofed with turves, and having walls somewhat bulged. |
turves |
443 |
Turf. A piece cut or torn from the surface of grassland, with grass, etc. growing on it; a sod;
often the grassy covering of a grave. |
It was newly raised: the raw earth was covered with fresh-cut turves:
about it were planted fifteen spears. |
twain |
762 |
Two; also, to be separate, disunited, or at variance. |
'One of the twain. |
twined |
376 |
To become twisted together, as two things, or as one thing with another; also, to wind by itself.
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And in a fading crown have twined the golden elanor. |
umbels |
192 |
An umbrella shaped plant. |
The hemlock-umbels tall and fair, |
unabated |
731 |
Not abated or lessened; not reduced in amount, intensity, etc. |
It pleased him that she should dwell there hungry an unabated
in malice, a more sure watch upon that ancient path into his land than any other that his skill could have devised. |
uncouth |
150 |
Uncultured, strange. |
The Shire-hobbits referred to those of Bree, and to any others that lived beyond the borders, as
Outsiders, and took very little interest in them, considering them dull and uncouth. |
uncouth |
582 |
Unfamiliar, unusual, unpleasant; strange and alarming; awkward, clumsy. |
When others spoke they seemed harsh and uncouth by contrast; and if they
gainsaid the voice, anger was kindled in the hearts of those under the spell. |
ungentle |
973 |
Not gentle; harsh; rough. |
I am a shieldmaiden and my hand is ungentle. |
unheralded |
235 |
Not proclaimed or announced beforehand. |
unheralded
he homeward sped. |
unmanned |
897 |
To deprive of the character or qualities of a man or human being; also, to deprive of virility, or
emasculate; also, to deprive of manly courage or fortitude, or break down the manly spirit of. |
So desolate were those places and so deep the horror that lay on them that some of the host were
unmanned, and they could neither walk or ride further north. |
unquiet |
559 |
Not quiet; restless; uneasy or perturbed; agitated or in commotion; not silent or still. |
Shafts were driven deep into the ground; their upper ends were covered by low mounds and domes of
stone, so that in the moonlight the Ring of Isengard looked like a graveyard of unquiet dead. |
unsullied |
709 |
Not sullied; unspoiled; spotless; stainless; untarnished. |
See text above for pall. |
unthrottled |
628 |
Not throttled. Throttle: to stop the breath of by compressing the throat; strangle; sometimes, to
choke or suffocate in any way. |
They were at any rate both alive and unthrottled. |
uppish |
1018 |
Proud; arrogant; self-assertive; assuming. |
You little folk are getting too uppish. |
upstart |
865 |
One who has risen suddenly form a humble position to wealth or power, or to assumed consequence.
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See text above for chamberlain. |
urchins |
996 |
A kind of elf or mischievous sprite (spirit); hence, a mischievous boy, or any small boy, or
youngster. |
'So you have come to gloat too, have you, my urchins? he said. |
usurpers |
131 |
To seize and hold (an office or position, power, etc.) by force or without right. Seizing or
holding a place of power without right. |
Tom's words laid bare the hearts of the trees and their thoughts, which were often dark and
strange, and filled with a hatred of things that go free upon the earth, gnawing, biting, breaking, hacking, burning: destroyers and usurpers. |
vales |
3 |
A valley. |
Their earliest tales seem to glimpse a time when they dwelt in the upper vales
of Anduin, between the eaves of Greenwood the Great and the Misty Mountains. |
valour |
858 |
British preferred form of valor;
also, valiant persons, or a valiant person (rare); also, value or worth. |
See text above for dour. |
van |
533 |
The foremost division or the front part of an army, a fleet, or any body of individuals advancing
or in order for advancing; the foremost position in such a body. |
Aragorn and Legolas went now with Éomer in the van. |
vanguard |
531 |
The foremost division of an army; the van; a part of an army detached from the main body to clear
the way and guard against surprise from the front. |
In the last red glow men in the vanguard
saw a black speck, a horseman riding back towards them. |
varmint |
91 |
An objectionable or troublesome person; a mischievous child. |
"See, lads," he said, "next time this young varmint
sets foot on my land, you can eat him. |
vassals |
959 |
Servant, retainer, vassal. In the feudal system, a person holding lands by the obligation to
render military service or its equivalent to his superior. |
Behind them in long swift lines came all their vassals
from the northern mountains, speeding on a gathering wind. |
verily |
246 |
In very truth; truly; really; indeed. |
Give me leave, Master Elrond,' said he, 'first to say more of Gondor; for verily
from the land of Gondor I am come. |
veritably |
908 |
In accordance with the truth or fact, or true, as statements, etc. |
He felt that if once he went beyond the crown of the pass and took one step veritably
down into that land of Mordor, that step would be irrevocable. |
victuals |
681 |
Of or for sustenance. Food or provisions, usually for human beings. |
As their eyes grew accustomed to the gloom the hobbits saw that the cave was larger than they
guessed and was filled with great store of arms and victuals. |
vie |
263 |
To strive in competition or rivalry with another; contend for superiority. |
The horses of the Nine cannot vie with him; tireless, swift as the flowing wind.
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vigil |
460 |
A devotional watching, or keeping awake, during the customary hours of sleep; wakefulness, watch.
|
The Riders had returned to their silent ominous vigil. |
viols |
977 |
A musical instrument,, or various sizes, shapes, etc., having a hollow body, a neck, a finger
board, and strings, and played with a bow; esp., an old (medieval and later) type having from five to seven strings, and made in four sizes. |
And the City was filled again with women and fair children that returned to their homes laden with
flowers; and from Dol Amroth came the harpers that harped most skillfully in all the land; and there were players upon viols and upon flutes and upon horns |
vomit |
730 |
To be ejected or come out with force or violence; spew, utter. |
But she was still there, who was there before Sauron, and before the first stone of Barad-dûr; and
she served none but herself, drinking the blood of Elves and Men, bloated and grown fat with endless brooding on her feasts, weaving webs of shadow; for all |
waft |
896 |
To carry or send (sounds, odors, smoke, dust, etc.) through the air; also, to float or be carried
through the air. |
The weather of the world remained fair, and the wind held in the west, but nothing could waft
away the glooms and the sad mists that clung about the Mountains of Shadow; and behind them at whiles great smokes would arise and hover in the upper winds. |
wafts |
864 |
Bear, carry, or propel over the water, as the waves, wind, etc. do. |
And even now the wind of thy hope cheats thee and wafts
up Anduin a fleet with black sails. |
wains |
403 |
Wagon; vehicle, or cart. |
From the havens of Harad ships of war put out to sea; and out of the East Men were moving
endlessly: swordsmen, spearmen, bowmen upon horses, chariots of chieftains and laden with wains. |
wallowing |
100 |
To roll or tumble about as an animal or person on the ground, a vessel on the waves. |
Snatches of competing songs came from the bathroom mixed with the sound of splashing and
wallowing. |
wan |
235 |
Dark or gloomy; also, wanting in brightness, pale or faint, as stars, light, etc. |
the yellow gold and jewels wan. |
waning |
267 |
Wanting, deficient; to decrease in size or in quantity. |
Only the waning
might of Gondor stands now between him and a march in power along the coasts into the North; and if he comes, assailing the White Towers and the Havens, hereafter the Elves may have no escape from the lengthening shadows of Middle-earth.'
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wantonly |
658 |
Reckless or disrespectful of right, justice, etc; maliciously or unjustifiably. |
They had not come very far from the road, and yet even in so short a space they had seen scars of
the old wars, and the newer wounds made by the Orcs and other foul servants of the Dark Lord: a pit of uncovered filth and refuse; trees hewn down wantonly a |
warbling |
183 |
To sing with trills, quavers, melodic embellishments, in a free and joyous manner. |
The ground now became damp, and in places boggy and here and there they came upon pools, and wide
stretches of reeds and rushes filled with the warbling of little hidden birds. |
ward |
439 |
To keep guard or protective watch over; to keep safe from harm; defend or protect. |
The east-mark is my charge, the ward
of the Third Marshal, and I have removed all our herds and herdfolk, withdrawing them beyond the Entwash, and leaving none here but guards and swift scouts.' |
wards |
780 |
A division or district of a town or city. |
Lights sprang in many windows, and from the houses and wards
of the men at arms along the walls there came the sound of song. |
ware |
667 |
To be on one's guard; look out; beware: used esp. in the imperative: as, 'Ware!' Watchful, wary,
cautious; also, aware of conscious. |
'Ware! Ware!' cried Damrod to his companion. |
warrant |
44 |
To give a formal assurance, or guarantee or promise. |
But I warrant you haven't seen them doing it; nor any one else in the Shire.' |
warren |
23 |
A habitation having passages like burrows. A building or collection or buildings containing many
tenants in limited quarters. The word is associated with rabbits, rabbit holes, etc. |
A regular warren, by all accounts. |
wavered |
141 |
To exhibit doubt or indecision; to change or vary; to fluctuate or vacillate (between); to falter
in resolution or allegiance; to show signs of giving way. |
He wavered, groping in his pocket, and then fought with himself again; and as he did
so the arm crept nearer. |
wavering |
192 |
To sway to and fro. |
In the wintry woodland wavering. |
waxing |
185 |
To increase in extent or size; of the moon, to undergo the periodical increase in the extent of
its illuminated portion before the full (as opposed to wane). |
The moon was waxing, and in the early night-hours a cold grey light lay on the land.
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waylay |
501 |
To lie in wait for (a traveler, passer-by, etc.) on the way; fall upon or assail from ambush, as
in order to rob, seize, or slay. |
For already he knows that the messengers that he sent to waylay
the Company have failed again. |
wayside |
78 |
Side of the way; the border or edge of the road or highway. |
The hobbits sat in the shadow by the wayside. |
wayward |
375 |
bottom l |
See text above for lade. |
wayward |
584 |
Turned away from the proper course, wayward; turned away from what is right and proper, or froward
or perverse. Disposed to turn wilfully from what is proper, reasonable, or expected, in order to follow one's own impulses or whims. |
You may find the Shadow of the Wood at your own door next: it is wayward,
and senseless, and has no love for Men. |
wayworn |
689 |
Worn or wearied by travel. |
And you are far from home and wayworn. |
weal |
920 |
A wale or welt. See wale. Wale - a streak, stripe, or ridge produced on the skin by the stroke of
a rod or whip. |
He was naked, lying as if in a swoon on a heap of filthy rags: his arm was flung up, shielding his
head, and across his side there ran an ugly whip-weal. |
weapontake |
787 |
From Old Norse. A territorial division. Part of a country or the judicial court of such a
subdivision, more commonly known as a Hundred. A Hundred was expected to send 100 warriors when requested. Also, the act of signifying assent at a public assembly; a |
It would be a great company; for the king was leaving only a small garrison in the Burg, and all
who could be spared were riding to the weapontake at Edoras. |
webs |
762 |
Something resembling woven fabric. |
No hangings nor storied webs, nor any things of woven stuff or of wood, were to be
seen in that long solemn hall; but between the pillars there stood a silent company of tall images graven in cold stone. |
well-knit |
814 |
Knit - to make compact or firm by contraction of consolidation of parts. |
See text above for lithe |
wellnigh |
773 |
Very nearly; almost. |
Perhaps it was the mountains looming on the verge of sight, their jagged edges softened by
wellnigh twenty leagues of misty air; perhaps it was but a cloud-wall, and beyond that again a yet deeper gloom. |
welter |
908 |
To roll, toss or heave, as waves, the sea, etc. |
The vast vapours that arose in Mordor and went steaming westward passed low overhead, a great
welter of cloud and smoke now lit again beneath with a sullen glow of red. |
weregild |
244 |
Payment. A fine for manslaughter and other crimes against the person, by pain which to the
relative of the deceased in the case of manslaughter, or to the injured person in the case of a wound or the like, the offender freed himself from every further obl |
"This I will have as weregild
for my father, and my brother," he said; and therefore whether or no, he took it to treasure it. |
weskit |
1026 |
A vest or waistcoat. |
What's come of his weskit? |
whatever-it-was |
|
Denoting an unnamed person, thing, quality, etc.; chiefly used as a perfunctory designation of
anything a speaker is reluctant or unable to describe specifically. |
For the whatever-it-was was coming along fast now and getting close behind Gimli.
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Whence |
241 |
From what place?; hence, from source or origin? |
Whence
it came we did not at first perceive. |
wherefore |
368 |
Interrogative adverb. For what? |
Do you not see now wherefore your coming is to us as the footstep of Doom? |
whetting |
540 |
To sharpen (a knife, tool, etc.) by grinding or friction. |
The elf was whetting his long knife. |
whiles |
312 |
At times. |
And he was in any case the bearer of the Ring: it hung upon its chain against his breast, and at
whiles it seemed a heavy weight. |
whin |
334 |
Basaltic rock; any of various other hard rocks; also, a mass or piece of such rock. |
It was rough and broken, fading to a winding track between heather and whin
that thrust amid the cracking stones. |
whither |
8 |
Interrogative adverb. To what place?; hence, to what point, end, course, etc.; to extent or how
far. |
'All the same, observations that I have made on my own many journeys south have convinced me that
the weed itself is not native to our parts of the world, but came northward from the lower Anduin, whither it was, I suspect, originally brought over Sea by |
whither |
35 |
Toward what place? |
And whither then? I cannot say. |
Wights |
134 |
A living being or creature; also, a supernatural or unearthly being. |
Don't you go a-meddling with old stone or cold Wights
or prying in their houses, unless you be strong folk with hearts that never falter!' |
wiles |
649 |
A trick, artifice, or stratagem; an artful of beguiling procedure. To trick, or deceive; also, to
beguile, entice, or lure (away, from, into, etc.). |
But even if Gollum could be trusted on this point, Frodo did not forget the wiles
of the enemy. |
wilt |
795 |
Second person singular present indicative of will: now only in poetic or solemn use.
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But she said: 'Aragorn, wilt thou go?' |
win |
818 |
To strive; also, to succeed by striving or effort; get (in, out, through, etc.); also, to make
one's way, as by effort, ability, etc. to reach a point, goal, etc. |
But how can he win
to the Gate, if these foul hell-hawks have other weapons than fear? |
wistfully |
375 |
Pensive or melancholy; longing; showing a feeling of longing tinged with melancholy; an
ostentatious display. |
Sam sat in the bows, clutching the sides, and looking back wistfully to the shore.
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wits |
11 |
Understanding, intelligence. |
In the end Bilbo won the game, more by luck (as it seemed) than by wits; for he was
stumped at last for a riddle to ask, and cried out, as his hand came upon the ring he lad picked up and forgotten: What have I got in my pocket? |
wizened |
331 |
Withered or shriveled as from drying. |
...Gandalf could be seen, glimmering in the gloom; he seemed small, and altogether alone: grey and
bent, like a wizened tree before the onset of a storm. |
woe |
89 |
An exclamation of grief, distress, or lamentation; grievous distress, affliction, or trouble.
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To heal my heart and drown my woe. |
wold |
384 |
An open, elevated tract of country: esp. applied in plural, to districts in parts of England (as
Yorkshire and Lincolnshire), resembling the downs of the southern counties. |
The Brown Lands rose into bleak wolds, over which flowed a chill air from the East.
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wont |
357 |
Accustomed; used, to accustom as to a thing; also to render (a thing) customary or usual. |
Her voice was clear and musical, but deeper than a woman's wont. |
wont |
757 |
Accustomed; used; to accustom (a person), as to a thing; custom; habit; practice. |
'But you come with tidings of grief and danger, as is your wont, they say.' |
worriting |
96 |
Provincial form of worry. |
Mrs. Maggot will be worriting with the night getting thick.' |
worsted |
143 |
To give (one) the worst or a contest or struggle; defeat; beat. |
'Of course, I remember!' he said. 'The men of Carn Dûm came on us at night, and we were
worsted. |
worthies |
175 |
Persons of eminent worth or merit; having worth; estimable, as a person. |
The worthies of Bree will be discussing it a hundred years hence.'
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wrack |
367 |
Wreck or wreckage cast ashore by the sea; also, shipwreck hence, ruin or destruction. |
Then he saw against the Sun, sinking blood-red into a wrack
of clouds, the black outline of a tall ship with torn sails riding up out of the West. |
wraith |
185 |
An apparition of a living person, or of one supposed to be living, popularly reputed to portend or
indicate his death; in general, a visible spirit; a ghost. |
I hope the thinning process will not go on indefinitely, or I shall become a wraith.'
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wrath |
101 |
Angry; strong, stern or fierce anger. |
A fact which partly explains young Frodo's long expeditions to the renowned fields of the Marish,
and the wrath of the injured Maggot. |
wreathe |
567 |
To encircle or adorn with. |
'Time wears on, and the mists are blowing away, or would if you strange folk did not wreathe
yourselves in smoke. |
wreathed |
330 |
To encircle or adorn with. |
The flames roared up to greet it, and wreathed
about it; and a black smoke swirled in the air. |
wrested |
866 |
To twist or turn; esp., to twist or turn from the proper course, application, use, or the like; to
take away by force. |
Then taking the key that he had wrested
from the slain man he closed the door and locked it. |
wrestling |
773 |
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Some say that as he sits alone in his high chamber in the Tower at night, and bends his thought
this way and that, he can read somewhat of the future; and that he will at times search even the mind of the Enemy, wrestling with him. |
writ |
677 |
Something written, or a writing. |
We in the house of Denethor know much ancient lore by long tradition, and there are moreover in
our treasuries many things preserved: books and tablets writ on withered parchments, yea, and on stone, and on leaves of silver and of gold, in divers characte |
writhen |
387 |
Twisted; contorted. |
Behind them stood low crumbling cliffs, and chimneys of grey weathered stone dark with ivy; and
beyond these again there rose high ridges crowned with wind-writhen firs. |
written |
903 |
Write - to trace or form (characters, letters, words, etc.) on a surface of some material, as with
a pen, pencil, or other instrument or means; inscribe. To make or cover with writing. |
Then Pippin stabbed upwards, and the written
blade of Westernesse pierced through the hide and went deep into the vitals of the troll, and his black blood came gushing out. |
wroth |
438 |
Affected with anger; incensed; wrathful. |
He is wroth. |
wrought |
50 |
Worked; elaborated, made. |
If he recovers it, then he will command them all again, wherever they be, even the Three, and all
that has been wrought with them will be laid bare, and he will be stronger than ever. |
wry face |
526 |
A twisted face or mouth. |
'Say also,' said Gandalf, 'that to crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face.' |
yammered |
127 |
Mourn, complain, sad, mournful; to lament, wail, whine, the act of yammering; a loud or persistent
talk. |
The voices wailed and the wolves yammered. |
yoke |
263 |
To become joined, united; to bring into subjection, servitude; also, figurative, any power, rule,
or influence entailing subjection or bondage. |
See text above for tribute. |
yonder |
68 |
At, in or to that place over there. |
He's moved to Bucklebury or some such place, away down yonder. |
yore |
237 |
Of old; years ago; long ago. |
in Elder Days, in years of yore. |
