All 7 Uses of
wrought
in
The Hobbit
- For ancient king and elvish lord There many a gloaming golden hoard They shaped and wrought, and light they caught To hide in gems on hilt of sword.†
Chpt 1
- Beneath him, under all his limbs and his huge coiled tail, and about him on all sides stretching away across the unseen floors, lay countless piles of precious things, gold wrought and unwrought, gems and jewels, and silver red-stained in the ruddy light.†
Chpt 12
- Beneath him, under all his limbs and his huge coiled tail, and about him on all sides stretching away across the unseen floors, lay countless piles of precious things, gold wrought and unwrought, gems and jewels, and silver red-stained in the ruddy light.†
Chpt 12
- …made for warriors long dead; the great golden cup of Thror, two-handed, hammered and carven with birds and flowers whose eyes and petals were of jewels; coats of mail gilded and silvered and impenetrable; the necklace of Girion, Lord of Dale, made of five hundred emeralds green as grass, which he gave for the arming of his eldest son in a coat of dwarf-linked rings the like of which had never been made before, for it was wrought of pure silver to the power and strength of triple steel.†
Chpt 12
- With that he put on Bilbo a small coat of mail, wrought for some young elf-prince long ago.†
Chpt 13 *
- Yet a fourteenth share of all the silver and gold, wrought and unwrought, was given up to Bard; for Dain said: "We will honour the agreement of the dead, and he has now the Arkenstone in his keeping."†
Chpt 18
- Yet a fourteenth share of all the silver and gold, wrought and unwrought, was given up to Bard; for Dain said: "We will honour the agreement of the dead, and he has now the Arkenstone in his keeping."†
Chpt 18 *
Definitions:
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(wrought as in: the damage she has wrought) caused to happen or occurred as a consequenceeditor's notes: This is most typically seen in classic literature. Less commonly, the present tense, wreak, is also seen.
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(wrought as in: wrought iron) worked -- as when iron is shaped to fit by bending or beating