All 7 Uses of
ruinous
in
The Return of the King
- Partly ruinous it seemed, but already before the night was passed the sound of hurried labour could be heard: beat of hammers, clink of trowels, and the creak of wheels.†
Chpt 5.1 *
- Far above a great cloud streamed slowly westward from the Black Land, devouring light, borne upon a wind of war; but below the air was still and breathless, as if all the Vale of Anduin waited for the onset of a ruinous storm.†
Chpt 5.4
- Then among the greater casts there fell another hail, less ruinous but more horrible.†
Chpt 5.4
- The Enemy has found it, and now his power waxes; he sees our very thoughts, and all we do is ruinous.†
Chpt 5.4
- Between them and the smoking mountain, and about it north and south, all seemed ruinous and dead, a desert burned and choked.†
Chpt 6.2
- But deep in his heart there was something that restrained him: he could not strike this thing lying in the dust, forlorn, ruinous, utterly wretched.†
Chpt 6.3
- The Towers of the Teeth swayed, tottered, and fell down; the mighty rampart crumbled; the Black Gate was hurled in ruin; and from far away, now dim, now growing, now mounting to the clouds, there came a drumming rumble, a roar, a long echoing roll of ruinous noise.†
Chpt 6.4
Definition:
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(ruinous) catastrophic or extremely harmful; or badly damaged or decayed (like ancient ruins)