All 3 Uses of
sylvan
in
The Fellowship of the Ring
- But the Elves of this land were of a race strange to us of the silvan folk, and the trees and the grass do not now remember them: Only I hear the stones lament them: deep they delved us, fair they wrought us, high they builded us; but they are gone.†
Chpt 2.3
- Of this stream the Silvan Elves made many songs long ago, and still we sing them in the North, remembering the rainbow on its falls, and the golden flowers that floated in its foam.†
Chpt 2.6
- Frodo could understand little of what was said, for the speech that the Silvan folk east of the mountains used among themselves was unlike that of the West.†
Chpt 2.6 *
Definition:
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(sylvan) relating to or characteristic of wooded regions