All 24 Uses of
glimmer
in
The Fellowship of the Ring
- They passed slowly, and the hobbits could see the starlight glimmering on their hair and in their eyes.†
Chpt 1.3
- The white bollards near the water's edge glimmered in the light of two lamps on high posts.†
Chpt 1.5
- In the darkness they caught the white glimmer of foam, where the river flowed over a short fall.†
Chpt 1.6
- She passed out of the room with a glimmer and a rustle.†
Chpt 1.7 *
- It was a pale morning: in the East, behind long clouds like lines of soiled wool stained red at the edges, lay glimmering deeps of yellow.†
Chpt 1.7
- Eastward the Barrow-downs rose, ridge behind ridge into the morning, and vanished out of eyesight into a guess: it was no more than a guess of blue and a remote white glimmer blending with the hem of the sky, but it spoke to them, out of memory and old tales, of the high and distant mountains.†
Chpt 1.8
- Following its line eastward with their eyes they saw the Mountains: the nearer foothills were brown and sombre; behind them stood taller shapes of grey, and behind those again were high white peaks glimmering among the clouds.†
Chpt 1.11
- Tinuviel was dancing there To music of a pipe unseen, And light of stars was in her hair, And in her raiment glimmering.†
Chpt 1.11
- Tinuviel the elven-fair, Immortal maiden elven-wise, About him cast her shadowy hair And arms like silver glimmering.†
Chpt 1.11
- Even as they did so, they saw on the top of the hill something small and dark against the glimmer of the moonrise.†
Chpt 1.11
- A wanderer escaped from night to haven white he came at last, to Elvenhome the green and fair where keen the air, where pale as glass beneath the Hill of Ilmarin a-glimmer in a valley sheer the lamplit towers of Tirion are mirrored on the Shadowmere.†
Chpt 2.1
- 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
- Behind them the sinking Sun filled the cool western sky with glimmering gold.†
Chpt 2.4
- In his left hand he held up his glimmering staff, the light of which just showed the ground before his feet;
Chpt 2.4 *glimmering = shining (with a dim or wavering light)
- High up above the eastern archway through a shaft near the roof came a long pale gleam; and across the hall through the northern arch light also glimmered faint and distantly.†
Chpt 2.4
- As they went along it the glimmer grew stronger, and they saw that it came through a doorway on their right.†
Chpt 2.4
- They groped their way down a long flight of steps, and then looked back; but they could see nothing, except high above them the faint glimmer of the wizard's staff.†
Chpt 2.5
- It stepped forward slowly on to the bridge, and suddenly it drew itself up to a great height, and its wings were spread from wall to wall; but still Gandalf could be seen, glimmering in the gloom; he seemed small, and altogether alone: grey and bent, like a wizened tree before the onset of a storm.†
Chpt 2.5
- Out of the shadows a ladder was let down: it was made of rope, silver-grey and glimmering in the dark, and though it looked slender it proved strong enough to bear many men.†
Chpt 2.6
- Among them, nodding on slender stalks, were other flowers, white and palest green: they glimmered as a mist amid the rich hue of the grass.†
Chpt 2.6
- There the white rind of the new Moon could be seen glimmering in the remote lakes.†
Chpt 2.9
- The night grew dark, but the stars above were strangely bright, and there was a glimmer On the face of the River.†
Chpt 2.9
- It was dark, but not too dark for the night-eyes of Orcs, and in the star-glimmer they must have offered their cunning foes some mark, unless it was that the grey cloaks Of Lorien and the grey timber of the elf-wrought boats defeated the malice of the archers of Mordor.†
Chpt 2.9
- Southward he looked, and below his very feet the Great River curled like a toppling wave and plunged over the falls of Rauros into a foaming pit; a glimmering rainbow played upon the fume.†
Chpt 2.10
Definitions:
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(glimmer as in: glimmering lights) a dim, wavering, or reflected light
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(glimmer as in: a glimmer of hope) a slight indication of something -- such as hope or interest