All 44 Uses of
passage
in
The Fellowship of the Ring
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- Just in time Bilbo saw his peril, and he fled blindly up the passage away from the water; and once more he was saved by his luck.†
Chpt Pro.
- 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.
- They were in a wide hall with doors on either side; in front of them a passage ran back down the middle of the house.†
Chpt 1.5
- 'Well, what do you think of it?' asked Merry coming up the passage.†
Chpt 1.5
- Merry led them down the passage and threw open a door at the far end.†
Chpt 1.5
- Merry and Fatty went into the kitchen on the other side of the passage, and busied themselves with the final preparations for a late supper.†
Chpt 1.5
- He opened the door, and they followed him down a short passage and round a sharp turn.†
Chpt 1.7
- Raising himself on one arm he looked, and saw now in the pale light that they were in a kind of passage which behind them turned a corner.†
Chpt 1.8
- He led them a short way down a passage, and opened a door.†
Chpt 1.9
- His footsteps retreated down the passage.†
Chpt 1.10 *
- At that moment they heard a door slam; then feet came running along the passage.†
Chpt 1.10
- At first they made fan-progress, but as they went on, their passage became slower and more dangerous.†
Chpt 1.11
- They found a passage between two hills that led them into a valley running south-east, the direction that they wished to take; but towards the end of the day they found their road again barred by a ridge of high land; its dark edge against the sky was broken into many bare points like teeth of a blunted saw.†
Chpt 1.12
- Sam led him along several passages and down many steps and out into a high garden above the steep bank of the river.†
Chpt 2.1
- 'lndeed,' said Gloin, 'if it were not for the Beornings, the passage from Dale to Rivendell would long ago have become impossible.†
Chpt 2.1
- The doors were thrown open, and they went across a wide passage and through other doors, and came into a further hall.†
Chpt 2.1
- But the Lords of Minas Tirith still fight on, defying our enemies, keeping the passage of the River from Argonath to the Sea.†
Chpt 2.2
- But if the passages of the River should be won, what then?†
Chpt 2.2
- Then Bilbo would read passages from his book (which still seemed very incomplete).†
Chpt 2.3
- But we must go on; and it is no good our delaying the passage of the mountains.†
Chpt 2.3
- Pippin marvelled at his strength, seeing the passage that he had already forced with no other tool than his great limbs.†
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
- The passage is blocked behind us now and there is only one way out-on the other side of the mountains.†
Chpt 2.4
- Two hundred steps they counted, broad and shallow; and at the top they found an arched passage with a level floor leading on into the dark.†
Chpt 2.4
- The passage twisted round a few turns, and then began to descend.†
Chpt 2.4
- In the pale ray of the wizard's staff, Frodo caught glimpses of stairs and arches and of other passages and tunnels, sloping up, or running steeply down, or opening blankly dark on either side.†
Chpt 2.4
- Before him stood a wide dark arch opening into three passages: all led in the same general direction, eastwards; but the left-hand passage plunged down, while the right-hand climbed up, and the middle way seemed to run on, smooth and level but very narrow.†
Chpt 2.4
- Before him stood a wide dark arch opening into three passages: all led in the same general direction, eastwards; but the left-hand passage plunged down, while the right-hand climbed up, and the middle way seemed to run on, smooth and level but very narrow.†
Chpt 2.4
- ' cried Gandalf as Merry and Pippin pushed forward, glad to find a place where they could rest with at least more feeling of shelter than in the open passage.†
Chpt 2.4
- 'This seems to have been a guardroom, made for the watching of the three passages,' said Gimli.†
Chpt 2.4
- I shall take the right-hand passage.†
Chpt 2.4
- The passage they had chosen wound steadily upwards.†
Chpt 2.4
- All about them as they lay hung the darkness, hollow and immense, and they were oppressed by the loneliness and vastness of the dolven halls and endlessly branching stairs and passages.†
Chpt 2.4
- With a quick movement Gandalf stepped before the narrow opening of the door and thrust forward his staff: There was a dazzling flash that lit the chamber and the passage outside.†
Chpt 2.5
- The passage on this side plunges straight down a stair: it plainly does not lead back towards the hall.†
Chpt 2.5
- The passage was lit by no shaft and was utterly dark.†
Chpt 2.5
- Gandalf took no turns, right or left, for the passage seemed to be going in the direction that he desired.†
Chpt 2.5
- But at least the passage behind us was completely blocked.†
Chpt 2.5
- It was flickering and glowing on the walls away down the passage before them.†
Chpt 2.5
- It was an ancient defence of the Dwarves against any enemy that might capture the First Hall and the outer passages.†
Chpt 2.5
- At the top was a wide echoing passage.†
Chpt 2.5
- Then he seemed to see himself going along a dim passage, and climbing an endless winding stair.†
Chpt 2.7
- Beyond it the shore rose sheer into a grey cliff, and there was no further passage for those on foot.†
Chpt 2.9
- Yet who knows what may happen in these evil days, now that Minas Tirith no longer holds secure the passages of Anduin.†
Chpt 2.10
Definition:
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(meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) More frequently, passage refers to a passageway for travel or to the act of traveling. It can also refer to the passing of time or of a law. See a comprehensive dictionary for the many meanings of passage, but for comfort taking standardized tests like the SAT and ACT, be very familiar with passage being used to refer to a short excerpt from a longer written work.