Both Uses
pinnacle
in
The Hobbit
(Edited)
- He was sitting, black in the moonlight, on the top of a lonely pinnacle of rock at the eastern edge of the mountains.
p. 96.5pinnacle = high point
- The morning was cool, and mists were in the valleys and hollows and twined here and there about the peaks and pinnacles of the hills.
p. 105.5 *pinnacles = mountain peaks or rock formations
Definitions:
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(1)
(pinnacle) the highest point -- either literally, like the top of a mountain, or figuratively, like the peak of success or achievement
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)