All 4 Uses of
foreboding
in
The Fellowship of the Ring
- At the end of June I was in the Shire, but a cloud of anxiety was on my mind, and I rode to the southern borders of the little land; for I had a foreboding of some danger, still hidden from me but drawing near.†
Chpt 2.2 *foreboding = a feeling that something bad is going to happen
- The Shire, I forebode, is not free now from peril; and these two I had thought to send back there as messengers, to do what they could, according to the fashion of their country, to warn the people of their danger.†
Chpt 2.3forebode = have a sense that something bad will happen; or act as a sign that something bad will happen
- 'It looks like a tomb,' muttered Frodo, and bent forwards with a curious sense of foreboding, to look more closely at it.†
Chpt 2.4foreboding = a feeling that something bad is going to happen
- I wonder what that forebodes.†
Chpt 2.9forebodes = warns ahead of time that something bad will happen