All 3 Uses of
desolate
in
The Two Towers
- Chapter 10 The Voice of Saruman They passed through the ruined tunnel and stood upon a heap of stones, gazing at the dark rock of Orthanc, and its many windows, a menace still in the desolation that lay all about it.†
Chpt 3.10
- They had come to the desolation that lay before Mordor: the lasting monument to the dark labour of its slaves that should endure when all their purposes were made void; a land defiled, diseased beyond all healing — unless the Great Sea should enter in and wash it with oblivion.†
Chpt 4.2
- Ithilien, the garden of Gondor now desolate kept still a dishevelled dryad loveliness.†
Chpt 4.4 *
Definition:
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(desolate as in: felt desolate) sad or miserable--and often lonely