All 4 Uses of
ruinous
in
The Two Towers
- 'These are the strangest trees that ever I saw,' he said; 'and I have seen many an oak grow from acorn to ruinous age.†
Chpt 3.8 *
- And all about, stone, cracked and splintered into countless jagged shards, was scattered far and wide, or piled in ruinous heaps.†
Chpt 3.8
- We had not yet given thought to the fate of the palantari of Gondor in its ruinous wars.†
Chpt 3.11
- The growing light revealed to them a land already, less barren and ruinous.†
Chpt 4.4
Definition:
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(ruinous) catastrophic or extremely harmful; or badly damaged or decayed (like ancient ruins)