All 10 Uses of
sullen
in
The Two Towers
- The fire faded to sullen embers.†
Chpt 3.6
- Smokes and steams drifted in sullen clouds and lurked in the hollows.†
Chpt 3.8
- Night was gathering over the shapeless lands before them; the sickly green of them was fading to a sullen brown.†
Chpt 4.1
- It was already day, a windless and sullen morning, and the marsh-reeks lay in heavy banks.†
Chpt 4.2
- The only green was the scum of livid weed on the dark greasy surfaces of the sullen waters.†
Chpt 4.2
- But the name of Aragorn had put Gollum into a sullen mood.
Chpt 4.3 *sullen = gloomy or bad
- On its further side the woods gathered again, blue and grey under the sullen evening, and marched on southwards.†
Chpt 4.7
- There was a flare of livid lightnings: forks of blue flame springing up from the tower and from the encircling hills into the sullen clouds.†
Chpt 4.8
- Against the sullen redness of the eastern sky a cleft was outlined in the topmost ridge, narrow, deep-cloven between two black shoulders; and on either shoulder was a horn of stone.†
Chpt 4.8
- 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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(sullen as in: a sullen mood) being unhappy (and often withdrawn)