All 18 Uses of
mortal
in
The Fellowship of the Ring
- It is far more powerful than I ever dared to think at first, so powerful that in the end it would utterly overcome anyone of mortal race who possessed it.†
Chpt 1.2
- The lesser rings were only essays in the craft before it was full-grown, and to the Elven-smiths they were but trifles — yet still to my mind dangerous for mortals.†
Chpt 1.2
- A mortal, Frodo, who keeps one of the Great Rings, does not die, but he does not grow or obtain more life, he merely continues, until at last every minute is a weariness.†
Chpt 1.2
- Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.†
Chpt 1.2
- Nine he gave to Mortal Men, proud and great, and so ensnared them.†
Chpt 1.2
- He stood as he had at times stood enchanted by fair elven-voices; but the spell that was now laid upon him was different: less keen and lofty was the delight, but deeper and nearer to mortal heart; marvellous and yet not strange.†
Chpt 1.7
- And I'm mortal afraid of what Gandalf will say, if harm comes of it.†
Chpt 1.10
- Beren was a mortal man, but Luthien was the daughter of Thingol, a King of Elves upon Middle-earth when the world was young; and she was the fairest maiden that has ever been among all the children of this world.†
Chpt 1.11
- So it was that Frodo saw her whom few mortals had yet seen; Arwen, daughter of Elrond, in whom it was said that the likeness of Luthien had come on earth again; and she was called Undomiel, for she was the Evenstar of her people.†
Chpt 2.1
- Beneath the Moon and under star he wandered far from northern strands, bewildered on enchanted ways beyond the days of mortal lands.†
Chpt 2.1
- The Silmaril she bound on him and crowned him with the living light and dauntless then with burning brow he turned his prow; and in the night from Otherworld beyond the Sea there strong and free a storm arose, a wind of power in Tarmenel; by paths that seldom mortal goes his boat it bore with biting breath as might of death across the grey and long-forsaken seas distressed: from east to west he passed away.†
Chpt 2.1
- And over Middle-earth he passed and heard at last the weeping sore of women and of elven-maids in Elder Days, in years of yore. gut on him mighty doom was laid, till Moon should fade, an orbed star to pass, and tarry never more on Hither Shores where mortals are; for ever still a herald on an errand that should never rest to bear his shining lamp afar, the Flammifer of Westernesse.†
Chpt 2.1
- "It is not easy for us to tell the difference between two mortals" said the Elf.
Chpt 2.1 *mortals = humans
- But Mortals have not been our study.†
Chpt 2.1
- He alone stood by his father in that last mortal contest; and by Gil-galad only Cardan stood, and I. But Isildur would not listen to our counsel.†
Chpt 2.2
- With Dwarf and Hobbit, Elves and Men, with mortal and immortal folk, with bird on bough and beast in den, in their own secret tongues he spoke.†
Chpt 2.7
- It was not, I think, until Silverlode bore us back to Anduin that we returned to the time that flows through mortal lands to the Great Sea.†
Chpt 2.9
- If any mortals have claim to the Ring, it is the men of Numenor, and not Halflings.†
Chpt 2.10
Definition:
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(mortal as in: mortal body) human (especially merely human); or subject to death