All 9 Uses of
bane
in
The Two Towers
Uses with a very rare meaning:
- Doubtless the Orcs despoiled them, but feared to keep the knives, knowing them for what they are: work of Westernesse, wound about with spells for the bane of Mordor.†
Chpt 3.1
- And what is Isildur's Bane?†
Chpt 4.4 *
- In particular he returned often to Isildur's Bane.†
Chpt 4.5
- 'But it was at the coming of the Halfling that Isildur's Bane should waken, or so one must read the words,' he insisted.†
Chpt 4.5
- It was for that reason that I turned rather to the matter of my brother and let be Isildur's Bane.†
Chpt 4.5
- Isildur's Bane — I would hazard that Isildur's Bane lay between you and was a cause of contention in your Company.†
Chpt 4.5
- Isildur's Bane — I would hazard that Isildur's Bane lay between you and was a cause of contention in your Company.†
Chpt 4.5
- 'But, Frodo, I pressed you hard at first about Isildur's Bane.†
Chpt 4.5
- Nor when the riddling words of our dream were debated among us, did I think of Isildur's Bane as being this same thing.†
Chpt 4.5
Definition:
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely and archaically, "bane" references a poison -- often in combination with a plant name such as Wolfsbane.