All 7 Uses of
assail
in
The Fellowship of the Ring
- The party was assailed by Orcs in a high pass of the Misty Mountains as they went towards Wilderland; and so it happened that Bilbo was lost for a while in the black orc-mines deep under the mountains, and there, as he groped in vain in the dark, he put his hand on a ring, lying on the floor of a tunnel.†
Chpt Prol.
- I do not know the reason for your flight, and therefore I do not know by what means your pursuers will assail you.†
Chpt 1.3 *
- Not once did they feel the sense of present evil that had assailed them before the attack in the dell.†
Chpt 1.12
- Now pain assailed him, and he felt cold.†
Chpt 1.12
- If we make no answer, the Enemy may move Men of his rule to assail King Brand, and Dain also.†
Chpt 2.2
- But Sauron of Mordor assailed them, and they made the Last Alliance of Elves and Men, and the hosts of Gil-galad and Elendil were mustered in Arnor.†
Chpt 2.2
- Only the waning might of Gondor stands now between him and a march in power along the coasts into the North; and if he comes, assailing the White Towers and the Havens, hereafter the Elves may have no escape from the lengthening shadows of Middle-earth.†
Chpt 2.2
Definition:
to attack or cause trouble