All 7 Uses of
remnant
in
The Return of the King
- They were the remnant of the guard that was kept at that point where the way from Anorien and Rohan ran into the townlands: Ingold led them, the same who had admitted Gandalf and Pippin less than five days before, while the sun still rose and there was hope in the morning.†
Chpt 5.4
- Mean folk shall rule the last remnant of the Kings of Men, lurking in the hills until all are hounded out.†
Chpt 5.4
- Remnants of an older time they be, living few and secretly, wild and wary as the beasts.†
Chpt 5.5 *
- Beside that he kept only the remnants of their waybread and the water-bottle, and Sting still hanging by his belt; and hidden away in a pocket of his tunic next his breast the phial of Galadriel and the little box that she gave him for his own.†
Chpt 6.3
- For some had laboured and fought much with the remnants of the Easterlings and Southrons, until all were subdued.†
Chpt 6.4
- Then he drew his forces off, encircling the last remnant of the Men in a wide ring of archers.†
Chpt 6.8
- The task of hunting out the last remnant of the ruffians was left to Merry and Pippin, and it was soon done.†
Chpt 6.9
Definition:
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(remnant) a small amount that remains after the rest is gone -- sometimes specifically of cloth