All 5 Uses of
ravine
in
The Return of the King
- The Company came at last out of the ravine, as suddenly as it they had issued from a crack in a wall; and there lay the uplands of a great vale before them, and the stream beside them went down with a cold voice over many falls.†
Chpt 5.2 *
- Frodo now led the way, northward as near as he could guess, among the stones and boulders lying thick at the bottom of the great ravine.†
Chpt 6.2
- They had climbed up a narrow shelving ravine, but they still had a long way to go before they could even come in sight of the last craggy ridge.†
Chpt 6.2
- They did not know the time, nor how long they had slept; but after a morsel of food and a sip of water they went on up the ravine, until it ended in a sharp slope of screes and sliding stones.†
Chpt 6.2
- In the end they were forced to go back down the ravine that they had climbed and seek for a way along the valley.†
Chpt 6.2
Definition:
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(ravine) a deep, narrow, steep-sided valley -- especially one formed by running water