All 3 Uses of
gossamer
in
The Fellowship of the Ring
- Slanting through the thin silver mist; the dew upon the yellow leaves was glimmering, and the woven nets of gossamer twinkled on every bush.†
Chpt 2.2 *
- I sit beside the fire and think of all that I have seen, of meadow-flowers and butterflies in summers that have been; Of yellow leaves and gossamer in autumns that there were, with morning mist and silver sun and wind upon my hair.†
Chpt 2.3
- At first they were no more than pale gossamer-threads, so fine that they only twinkled fitfully where the Moon caught them, but steadily they grew broader and clearer, until their design could be guessed.†
Chpt 2.4
Definition:
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(gossamer) characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy
or:
so thin as to transmit light