All 12 Uses of
dwindle
in
The Fellowship of the Ring
- They seldom now reach three feet; but they hive dwindled, they say, and in ancient days they were taller.†
Chpt Prol. *dwindled = decreased
- Indeed, a remnant still dwelt there of the Dunedain, the kings of Men that came over the Sea out of Westernesse; but they were dwindling fast and the lands of their North Kingdom were falling far and wide into waste.†
Chpt Prol.dwindling = decreasing
- He seemed to dwindle again to an old grey man, bent and troubled.†
Chpt 1.1
- Frodo crawled to the edge of the road and watched the rider, until he dwindled into the distance.†
Chpt 1.3dwindled = decreased
- They watched the pale rings of light round his lanterns as they dwindled into the foggy night.†
Chpt 1.4
- Northward beyond the dwindling downs the land ran away in flats and swellings of grey and green and pale earth-colours, until it faded into a featureless and shadowy distance.†
Chpt 1.8dwindling = decreasing
- For the folk of Arnor dwindled, and their foes devoured them, and their lordship passed, leaving only green mounds in the grassy hills.†
Chpt 2.2dwindled = decreased
- Our days have darkened, and we have dwindled; but ever the Sword has passed to a new keeper.†
Chpt 2.2
- Not until they had dwindled into the distance, north and west, and the sky was again clear would Aragorn rise.†
Chpt 2.3
- The others waited huddled together, watching until Boromir and Aragorn dwindled into black specks in the whiteness.†
Chpt 2.3
- We must depart into the West, or dwindle to a rustic folk of dell and cave, slowly to forget and to be forgotten.†
Chpt 2.7
- He came to a path, the dwindling ruins of a road of long ago.†
Chpt 2.10dwindling = decreasing
Definition:
to gradually become smaller, fewer, or weaker