All 7 Uses of
dwindle
in
The Two Towers
- 'I can see nothing away north or west but grass dwindling into mist,' said Gimli.†
Chpt 3.2 *
- Its bottom was less stony and more earthy, and slowly its sides dwindled to mere banks.†
Chpt 4.2
- By morning-light the roads that converged upon the Gate of Mordor could now be clearly seen, pale and dusty; one winding back northwards; another dwindling eastwards into the mists that clung about the feet of Ered Lithui; and a third that ran towards him.†
Chpt 4.3
- At last, when night was growing old and they were already weary, for they had taken only one short rest, the eye dwindled to a small fiery point and then vanished: they had turned the dark northern shoulder of the lower mountains and were heading southwards.†
Chpt 4.4
- It dwindled at last to a country cart-road little used; but it did not wind: it held on its own sure course and guided them by the swiftest way.†
Chpt 4.4
- He still hopefully carried some of his gear in his pack: a small tinder-box, two small shallow pans, the smaller fitting into the larger; inside them a wooden spoon, a short two-pronged fork and some skewers were stowed; and hidden at the bottom of the pack in a flat wooden box a dwindling treasure, some salt.†
Chpt 4.4
- Frodo shuddered as he looked again at the distant pinnacles now dwindling into night, and the sound of the water seemed cold and cruel: the voice of Morgulduin, the polluted stream that flowed from the Valley of the Wraiths.†
Chpt 4.7
Definition:
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(dwindle) to decrease -- in count or substance