All 10 Uses of
hallowed
in
The Return of the King
- A rash vow he spoke, as he drained the horn at that feast which Brego made to hallow new-built Meduseld, and he came never to the high seat of which he was the heir.†
Chpt 5.3
- Farewell he bade to his free people, hearth and high-seat, and the hallowed places, where long he had feasted ere the light faded.†
Chpt 5.3 *
- Suddenly the silence was broken, and they heard below them cries and the ringing of swords: such sounds as had not been heard in the hallowed places since the building of the City.†
Chpt 5.7
- Two of them had already fallen to his sword, staining the hallows with their blood; and the others cursed him, calling him outlaw and traitor to his master.†
Chpt 5.7
- And why do men fight here in the Hallows when there is war enough before the Gate?†
Chpt 5.7
- And the King said to Beregond: 'Beregond, by your sword blood was spilled in the Hallows, where that is forbidden.†
Chpt 6.5
- Now, as you know, we have laid Theoden the Renowned in a tomb in the Hallows, and there he shall lie for ever among the Kings of Gondor, if you will.†
Chpt 6.5
- For it led up on to the mountain to a high hallow where only the kings had been wont to go.†
Chpt 6.5
- But this is an ancient hallow, and ere the kings failed or the Tree withered in the court, a fruit must have been set here.†
Chpt 6.5
- Then the kings of Gondor and Rohan went to the Hallows and they came to the tombs in Rath Danen, and they bore away King Theoden upon a golden bier, and passed through the City in silence.†
Chpt 6.6
Definition:
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(hallowed) of something declared or believed to be holy
or:
widely respected and revered over time