All 3 Uses of
fallow
in
The Fellowship of the Ring
- In the dim light of the stars their stems were grey, and their quivering leaves a hint of fallow gold.†
Chpt 2.6 *
- Looking through an opening on the south side of the flet Frodo saw all the valley of the Silverlode lying like a sea of fallow gold tossing gently in the breeze.†
Chpt 2.6
- It was hard to say of what colour they were: grey with the hue of twilight under the trees they seemed to be; and yet if they were moved, or set in another light, they were green as shadowed leaves, or brown as fallow fields by night, dusk-silver as water under the stars.†
Chpt 2.8
Definition:
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(fallow) cultivated land temporarily unplanted -- usually to improve the soil; or anything temporarily inactive or undeveloped