All 11 Uses of
ominous
in
The Fellowship of the Ring
- So it went on, until his forties were running out, and his fiftieth birthday was drawing near: fifty was a number that he felt was somehow significant (or ominous); it was at any rate at that age that adventure had suddenly befallen Bilbo.†
Chpt 1.2ominous = threatening (suggestive of, or foreshadowing bad things to come)
- That name the hobbits only knew in legends of the dark past, like a shadow in the background of their memories; but it was ominous and disquieting.†
Chpt 1.2
- The tidings were mostly sad and ominous: of gathering darkness, the wars of Men, and the flight of the Elves.†
Chpt 1.3
- The sound was ominous.†
Chpt 1.6
- They began to feel that all this country was unreal, and that they were stumbling through an ominous dream that led to no awakening.†
Chpt 1.6
- The dark patches grew darker, but they shrank; and suddenly he saw, towering ominous before him and leaning slightly towards one another like the pillars of a headless door, two huge standing stones.†
Chpt 1.8
- ...the ruins of towers: they had an ominous look.
Chpt 1.12 *ominous = threatening or suggestive of evil or bad things
- They had been in fear of pursuit for so long that any sound from behind seemed ominous and unfriendly.†
Chpt 1.12ominous = threatening (suggestive of, or foreshadowing bad things to come)
- Beyond the ominous water were reared vast cliffs, their stern faces pallid in the fading light: final and impassable.†
Chpt 2.4
- Now dark and ominous it loomed up in the night.†
Chpt 2.9
- Tall and sheer and ominous they stood upon either side of the stream.†
Chpt 2.9