All 6 Uses of
chasm
in
The Return of the King
- So deep and narrow was that chasm that the sky was dark, and in it small stars glinted.†
Chpt 5.2 *
- 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
- A short way beyond the way-meeting, after another steep incline, a flying bridge of stone leapt over the chasm and bore the road across into the tumbled slopes and glens of the Morgai.†
Chpt 6.2
- Out from the Dark Tower's huge western gate it came over a deep abyss by a vast bridge of iron, and then passing into the plain it ran for a league between two smoking chasms, and so reached a long sloping causeway that led up on to the Mountain's eastern side.†
Chpt 6.3
- The light sprang up again, and there on the brink of the chasm, at the very Crack of Doom, stood Frodo, black against the glare, tense, erect, but still as if he had been turned to stone.†
Chpt 6.3
- Frodo gave a cry, and there he was, fallen upon his knees at the chasm's edge.†
Chpt 6.3
Definition:
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(chasm) a large and deep and steep-sided opening on the earth's surface; or (more rarely) any large gap
or:
a very large difference -- often of opinion