All 5 Uses of
fissure
in
The Fellowship of the Ring
- Enormous it looked, its sprawling branches going up like reaching arms with many long-fingered hands, its knotted and twisted trunk gaping in wide fissures that creaked faintly as the boughs moved.†
Chpt 1.6 *
- No sign of gate or entrance, not a fissure or crack could Frodo see in the frowning stone.†
Chpt 2.4
- There were fissures and chasms in the walls and floor, and every now and then a crack would open right before their feet.†
Chpt 2.4
- Right across the floor, close to the feet of two huge pillars a great fissure had opened.†
Chpt 2.5
- Then with a rush it leaped across the fissure.†
Chpt 2.5
Definition:
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(fissure) a long, narrow crack; or its creation -- especially in the ground or in rock
or:
a crack in the unity of a group; or its creation