All 14 Uses of
despair
in
The Fellowship of the Ring
- In the end, gathering his courage, he leaped over Gollum in the dark, and fled away down the passage, pursued by his enemy's cries of hate and despair: Thief, thief!
Chpt Pro. (definition 1)despair = distress (at inability to improve a bad situation)
- Wanderers in the shadowed land despair not!
Chpt 1.6 (definition 2)despair = give up hope
- 'Don't despair!' said Strider.
Chpt 1.12 (definition 2) *
- Even so they often despaired of getting their pony up, or indeed of finding a path for themselves, burdened as they were.
Chpt 1.12 (definition 2)despaired = lost hope
- There we had rumour of him, and we guess that he dwelt there long in the dark hills; but we never found him, and at last I despaired.
Chpt 2.2 (definition 2)
- And then in my despair I thought again of a test that might make the finding of Gollum unneeded.
Chpt 2.2 (definition 1)despair = distress (at not knowing how to improve a bad situation)
- I, too, despaired at last, and I began my homeward journey.
Chpt 2.2 (definition 2)despaired = lost hope
- That is the path of despair.
Chpt 2.2 (definition 1)despair = hopelessness
- 'Despair, or folly?' said Gandalf.
Chpt 2.2 (definition 1)
- It is not despair,
Chpt 2.2 (definition 1)
- ...for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt.
Chpt 2.2 (definition 1) *
- They despaired, until I returned and told them that the drift was little wider than a wall.
Chpt 2.3 (definition 2)despaired = lost hope
- He sat with his head bowed, either in despair or in anxious thought.
Chpt 2.4 (definition 1)despair = hopelessness
- All shall love me and despair!†
Chpt 2.7 (definition 1)
Definitions:
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(1) (despair as in: she felt despair) hopelessness; or distress (such as extreme worry or sadness from feeling powerless to change a bad situation)
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(2) (despair as in: do not despair) lose hope or feel distress