All 14 Uses of
sheer
in
The Fellowship of the Ring
- 'It was sheer accident!' interrupted Frodo.†
Chpt 1.10 *
- 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
- He came unto the timeless halls where shining fall the countless years, and endless reigns theElder King in Ilmarin on Mountain sheer; and words unheard were spoken then of folk of Men and Elven-kin, beyond the world were visions showed forbid to those that dwell therein.†
Chpt 2.1
- But Isengard is a circle of sheer rocks that enclose a valley as with a wall, and in the midst of that valley is a tower of stone called Orthanc.†
Chpt 2.2
- Paths were few and winding, and led them often only to the edge of some sheer fall, or down into treacherous swamps.†
Chpt 2.3
- On the third morning Caradhras rose before them, a mighty peak, tipped with snow like silver, but with sheer naked sides, dull red as if stained with blood.†
Chpt 2.3
- The narrow path now wound under a sheer wall of cliffs to the left, above which the grim flanks of Caradhras towered up invisible in the gloom; on the right was a gulf of darkness where the land fell suddenly into a deep ravine.†
Chpt 2.3
- It was flung across the mountain-path like a sheer and sudden wall, and its crest, sharp as if shaped with knives, reared up more than twice the height of Boromir; but through the middle a passage had been beaten, rising and falling like a bridge.†
Chpt 2.3
- 'There it lies,' he said, pointing away south-eastwards to where the mountains' sides fell sheer into the shadows at their feet.†
Chpt 2.4
- It sloped up away from the River, a tumbled waste of grey limestone-boulders, with many hidden holes shrouded with weeds and bushes; there were thickets of brambles, and sheer dells; and here and there boggy pools fed by waters trickling from the terraces further inland.†
Chpt 2.9
- Beyond it the shore rose sheer into a grey cliff, and there was no further passage for those on foot.†
Chpt 2.9
- Tall and sheer and ominous they stood upon either side of the stream.†
Chpt 2.9
- Sheer rose the dreadful cliffs to unguessed heights on either side.†
Chpt 2.9
- Its sides sprang sheer out of the running water.†
Chpt 2.10
Definition:
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(sheer as in: a sheer blouse) typically of fabric: very thin and delicate -- often transparent