All 19 Uses of
brief
in
The Fellowship of the Ring
- The briefer, the sooner shall you be refreshed.†
Chpt 2.2 *
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- Then he paid Frodo a brief visit, and after taking a good look at him he went off again.†
Chpt 1.2
- He spoke 'a few suitable words', as they would have said in the Shire: _We are all very much gratified by the kindness of your reception, and I venture to hope that my brief visit will help to renew the old ties of friendship between the Shire and Bree;_and then he hesitated and coughed.†
Chpt 1.9
- 'I will tell you the tale of Tinuviel,' said Strider, 'in brief — for it is a long tale of which the end is not known; and there are none now, except Elrond, that remember it aright as it was told of old.†
Chpt 1.11
- But she chose mortality, and to die from the world, so that she might follow him; and it is sung that they met again beyond the Sundering Seas, and after a brief time walking alive once more in the green woods, together they passed, long ago, beyond the confines of this world.†
Chpt 1.11 *
- Glorfindel still urged them on, and only allowed two brief halts during the day's march.†
Chpt 1.12
- I will risk a brief tale without consulting Elrond.†
Chpt 2.1
- But quite brief, mind you, and then you must sleep again.†
Chpt 2.1
- This tale I must tell in full, for only Elrond has heard it yet, and that in brief, but it will bear on all that we must resolve.†
Chpt 2.2
- The rest must be more brief.†
Chpt 2.2
- Then sooner or later Rivendell will be besieged, and after a brief and bitter time it will be destroyed.†
Chpt 2.4
- After a brief halt and a hasty meal they went on again.†
Chpt 2.4
- After only a brief rest they started on their way again.†
Chpt 2.4
- They had been going for several hours with only brief halts, when Gandalf came to his first serious check.†
Chpt 2.4
- For eight dark hours, not counting two brief halts, they marched on; and they met no danger, and heard nothing, and saw nothing but the faint gleam of the wizard's light, bobbing like a will-o'-the-wisp in front of them.†
Chpt 2.4
- He raised his staff, and for a brief instant there was blaze like a flash of lightning.†
Chpt 2.4
- Sam and Frodo now feeling eased and greatly refreshed were able to go at a fair pace, and with only one brief halt Aragorn led the Company on for nearly three more hours.†
Chpt 2.6
- Brief and small but very vivid he caught a glimpse of Bilbo walking restlessly about his room.†
Chpt 2.7
- Nothing happened that night worse than a brief drizzle of rain an hour before dawn.†
Chpt 2.9
Definitions:
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(meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) Brief is most commonly encountered as an adjective meaning "of short duration." Other meanings derive from the idea of short--as when making a long story short by summarizing it, or when wearing briefs (underwear).
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(brief as in: briefed her) to give a summary of important information to someone