All 5 Uses of
desolate
in
The Fellowship of the Ring
- But the Northern Lands had long been desolate, and the North Road was now seldom used: it was grass-grown, and the Bree-folk called it the Greenway.†
Chpt 1.9
- 'How surprised Bilbo would have been to see all the changes in the Desolation of Smaug!'†
Chpt 2.1 *
- In the North after the war and the slaughter of the Gladden Fields the Men of Westernesse were diminished, and their city of Annuminas beside Lake Evendim fell into ruin; and the heirs of Valandil removed and dwelt at Fornost on the high North Downs, and that now too is desolate.†
Chpt 2.2
- ' "The enemy must have some great need or purpose," said Radagast; "but what it is that makes him look to these distant and desolate parts, I cannot guess."†
Chpt 2.2
- They had come to the Brown Lands that lay, vast and desolate, between Southern Mirkwood and the hills of the Emyn Muil.†
Chpt 2.9
Definition:
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(desolate as in: felt desolate) sad or miserable--and often lonely