All 3 Uses of
tryst
in
The Return of the King
- None of the people of the valley dared to approach it, nor would they dwell near; for they said that it was a trysting-place of the Shadow-men, and there they would gather in times of fear, thronging round the Stone and whispering.†
Chpt 5.2
- Whence they came none knew, but they went up the stony road and vanished into the hill, as if they went to keep a tryst.†
Chpt 5.3 *
- Swiftly then he told of the haunted road under the mountains, and the dark tryst at Erech, and the great ride thence, ninety leagues and three, to Pelargir on Anduin.†
Chpt 5.9
Definition:
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(tryst) a rendezvous (meeting) -- especially a secret one between lovers