All 4 Uses of
somber
in
The Two Towers
- In the afternoon the dark clouds began to overtake them: a sombre canopy with great billowing edges flecked with dazzling light.†
Chpt 3.7 *
- Beyond it were slopes covered with sombre trees like dark clouds. but all about them lay a tumbled heathland, grown with ling and broom and cornel, and other shrubs that they did not know.†
Chpt 4.4
- At length they reached the trees, and found that they stood in a great roofless ring, open in the middle to the sombre sky; and the spaces between their immense boles were like the great dark arches of some ruined hall.†
Chpt 4.7
- The great smokes had risen and grown thinner, and the last hours of a sombre day were passing; the red glare of Mordor had died away in sullen gloom.†
Chpt 4.9
Definition:
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(somber as in: a somber mood) serious (without cheer or lightheartedness); or sad