All 6 Uses of
ashen
in
The Return of the King
- Pippin looked up, and it seemed to him that the sky had grown ashen-grey, as if a vast dust and smoke hung above them, and light came dully through it.†
Chpt 5.1
- Ever and anon the furnaces far below its ashen cone would grow hot and with a great surging and throbbing pour forth rivers of molten rock from chasms in its sides.†
Chpt 6.1
- Still far away, forty miles at least, they saw Mount Doom, its feet founded in ashen ruin, its huge cone rising to a great height, where its reeking head was swathed in cloud.†
Chpt 6.2
- Behind it there hung a vast shadow, ominous as a thunder-cloud, the veils of Barad-dur that was reared far way upon a long spur of the Ashen Mountains thrust down from the North.†
Chpt 6.2
- A few miles to the north-east the foothills of the Ashen Mountains stood like sombre grey ghosts, behind which the misty northern heights rose like a line of distant cloud hardly darker than the lowering sky.†
Chpt 6.3
- They had reached a low ashen hill piled at the Mountain's foot; but from it there was no more escape.†
Chpt 6.4 *
Definition:
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(ashen as in: ashen face) very pale - often due to illness or fear