Both Uses of
remnant
in
The Hobbit
- "I could not say," said Elrond, "but one may guess that your trolls had plundered other plunderers, or come on the remnants of old robberies in some hold in the mountains of the North.†
Chpt 3
- Your own wisdom must decide your course, but thirteen is small remnant of the great folk of Durin that once dwelt here, and now are scattered far.†
Chpt 15 *
Definition:
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(remnant) a small amount that remains after the rest is gone -- sometimes specifically of cloth