All 13 Uses of
wither
in
The Fellowship of the Ring
- All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.Chpt 1.10 *wither = weaken
- He opened his pouch and drew out some withered leaves.
Chpt 2.6 *withered = shriveled (wilted, dried up)
- In the black wind the stars shall die, and still on gold here let them lie, till the dark lord lifts his hand over dead sea and withered land.†
Chpt 1.8
- Now withered lay the hemlock-sheaves, And one by one with sighing sound Whispering fell the beechen leaves In the wintry woodland wavering.†
Chpt 1.11
- They dreaded the dark hours, and kept watch in pairs by night, expecting at any time to see black shapes stalking in the grey night, dimly lit by the cloud-veiled moon; but they saw nothing, and heard no sound but the sigh of withered leaves and grass.†
Chpt 1.12
- But in the wearing of the swift years of Middle-earth the line of Meneldil son of Anarion failed, and the Tree withered, and the blood of the Numenoreans became mingled with that of lesser men.†
Chpt 2.2
- Standing suddenly up he burst out: All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost.†
Chpt 2.2
- His malice is great and gives him a strength hardly to be believed in one so lean and withered.†
Chpt 2.2
- It is clad in a forest of dark fir, where the trees strive one against another and their branches rot and wither.†
Chpt 2.6
- But now as he sat beside the fountain in Lorien and heard about him the voices of the Elves, his thought took shape in a song that seemed fair to him; yet when he tried to repeat it to Sam only snatches remained, faded as a handful of withered leaves.†
Chpt 2.7
- On the eastern bank to their left they saw long formless slopes stretching up and away toward the sky; brown and withered they looked, as if fire had passed over them, leaving no living blade of green: an unfriendly waste without even a broken tree or a bold stone to relieve the emptiness.†
Chpt 2.9
- Their dark withered plumes bent and tossed in the light cold airs, hissing softly and sadly.†
Chpt 2.9
- On the other side the meads had become rolling downs of withered grass amidst a land of fen and tussock.†
Chpt 2.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(wither as in: wither on the vine) to shrivel (wrinkle and contract -- usually from lack of water)
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(2)
(wither as in: her confidence withered) to become weaker--sometimes to get smaller and disappear
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much less commonly, Withers can be a last name.