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The Fellowship of the Ring

Their earliest tales seem to glimpse a time when they dwelt in the upper vales of Anduin, between the eaves of Greenwood the Great and the Misty Mountains.†
Chpt Pro.

They came west after the Harfoots and followed the course of the Loudwater southwards; and there many of them long dwelt between Tharbad and the borders of Dunland before they moved north again.†
Chpt Pro.

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 Pro.

They passed over the Bridge of Stonebows, that had been built in the days of the power of the North Kingdom, and they took ail the land beyond to dwell in, between the river and the Far Downs.†
Chpt Pro.

Their dwellings were apt to become rather crowded with mathoms, and many of the presents that passed from hand to hand were of that son.†
Chpt Pro. (definition 1)

All Hobbits had originally lived in holes in the ground, or so they believed, and in such dwellings they still felt most at home; but in the course of time they had been obliged to adopt other forms of abode.†
Chpt Pro. (definition 1)

For the Elves of the High Kindred had not yet forsaken Middle-earth, and they dwelt still at that time at the Grey Havens away to the west, and in other places within reach of the Shire.†
Chpt Pro.

It is said that Celeborn went to dwell there after the departure of Galadriel; but there is no record of the day when at last he sought the Grey Havens, and with him went the last living memory of the Elder Days in Middle-earth.†
Chpt Pro.

He spoke lightly; but his heart was moved suddenly with a desire to see the house of Elrond Halfelven, and breathe the air of that deep valley where many of the Fair Folk still dwelt in peace.†
Chpt 1.3

We still remember, we who dwell In this far land beneath the trees, Thy starlight on the Western Seas.†
Chpt 1.3

But some of our kinsfolk dwell still in peace in Rivendell.†
Chpt 1.3

Others dwelt here before hobbits were; and others will dwell here again when hobbits are no more.†
Chpt 1.3

Others dwelt here before hobbits were; and others will dwell here again when hobbits are no more.†
Chpt 1.3

The Maggots, and the Puddifoots of Stock, and most of the inhabitants of the Marish, were house-dwellers; and this farm was stoutly built of brick and had a high wall all round it.†
Chpt 1.4

Frodo had chosen it, because it stood in an out-of-the-way corner of the country, and there were no other dwellings close by.†
Chpt 1.5 (definition 1)

To Rivendell, where Elves yet dwell In glades beneath the misty fell, Through moor and waste we ride in haste, And whither then we cannot tell.†
Chpt 1.5

In those days no other Men had settled dwellings so far west, or within a hundred leagues of the Shire.†
Chpt 1.9 (definition 1)

But long ago he rode away, and where he dwelleth none can say; for into darkness fell his star in Mordor where the shadows are.†
Chpt 1.11

In those days the Great Enemy, of whom Sauron of Mordor was but a servant, dwelt in Angband in the North, and the Elves of the West coming back to Middle-earth made war upon him to regain the Silmarils which he had stolen; and the fathers of Men aided the Elves.†
Chpt 1.11

Athelas they named it, and it grows now sparsely and only near places where they dwelt or camped of old; and it is not known in the North, except to some of those who wander in the Wild.†
Chpt 1.12

Men once dwelt here, ages ago; but none remain now.†
Chpt 1.12

I dwelt there once, and still I return when I may.†
Chpt 1.12

In a case in the hills he dwelt alone, And meat was hard to come by.†
Chpt 1.12

No others that dwelt in the wide world had voices so fair to hear.†
Chpt 1.12

'This is Glorfindel, who dwells in the house of Elrond,' said Strider.†
Chpt 1.12 (definition 2)

They do not fear the Ringwraiths, for those who have dwelt in the Blessed Realm live at once in both worlds, and against both the Seen and the Unseen they have great power.†
Chpt 2.1

Indeed there is a power in Rivendell to withstand the might of Mordor, for a while: and elsewhere other powers still dwell.†
Chpt 2.1

It is largely on account of Balin that I have come to ask the advice of those that dwell in Rivendell.†
Chpt 2.1

He came unto the timeless halls where shining fall the countless years, and endless reigns theElder King in Ilmarin on Mountain sheer; and words unheard were spoken then of folk of Men and Elven-kin, beyond the world were visions showed forbid to those that dwell therein.†
Chpt 2.1

And he asked urgently concerning hobbits, of what kind they were, and where they dwelt.†
Chpt 2.2

In the North after the war and the slaughter of the Gladden Fields the Men of Westernesse were diminished, and their city of Annuminas beside Lake Evendim fell into ruin; and the heirs of Valandil removed and dwelt at Fornost on the high North Downs, and that now too is desolate.†
Chpt 2.2

In that dream I thought the eastern sky grew dark and there was a growing thunder, but in the West a pale light lingered, and out of it I heard a voice, remote but clear, crying: Seek for the Sword that was broken: In Imladris it dwells; There shall be counsels taken Stronger than Morgul-spells.†
Chpt 2.2 (definition 2)

This only would he say, that Imladris was of old the name among the Elves of a far northern dale, where Elrond the Halfelven dwelt, greatest of lore-masters.†
Chpt 2.2

For here the heirs of Valandil have ever dwelt in long line unbroken from father unto son for many generations.†
Chpt 2.2

Sauron also had watched us, and had long prepared against our stroke, governing Mordor from afar through Minas Morgul, where his Nine servants dwelt, until all was ready.†
Chpt 2.2

There we had rumour of him, and we guess that he dwelt there long in the dark hills; but we never found him, and at last I despaired.†
Chpt 2.2

All know in Gondor that he went first to Minas Anor and dwelt a while with his nephew Meneldil, instructing him, before he committed to him the rule of the South Kingdom.†
Chpt 2.2

For this scroll concerns the Ring, and thus wrote Isildur therein: _The Great Ring shall go now to be an heirloom of the North Kingdom; but records of it shall be left in Gondor, where also dwell the heirs of Elendil, lest a time come when the memory of these great matters shall grow dim.†
Chpt 2.2

It was Radagast the Brown, who at one time dwelt at Rhosgobel, near the borders of Mirkwood.†
Chpt 2.2

...and I came at long last to the dwelling of Saruman.
Chpt 2.2 (definition 1) *

dwelling = home (or place in which someone lives)

And I was glad, for in the Riddermark of Rohan the Rohirrim, the Horse-lords, dwell, and there are no horses like those that are bred in that great vale between the Misty Mountains and the White.†
Chpt 2.2

...dwelling still in the lands that we gave them long ago...
Chpt 2.2 (definition 2) *

dwelling = living (or making their home in)

And they who dwell beyond the Sea would not receive it: for good or ill it belongs to Middle-earth; it is for us who still dwell here to deal with it.†
Chpt 2.2

And they who dwell beyond the Sea would not receive it: for good or ill it belongs to Middle-earth; it is for us who still dwell here to deal with it.†
Chpt 2.2

Much evil must befall a country before it wholly forgets the Elves, if once they dwelt there.†
Chpt 2.3

No folk dwell here now, but many other creatures live here at all times, especially birds.†
Chpt 2.3

I alone of you have ever been in the dungeons of the Dark Lord, and only in his older and lesser dwelling in Dol Guldur.†
Chpt 2.4

He did not speak aloud his thought that whatever it was that dwelt in the lake, it had seized on Frodo first among all the Company.†
Chpt 2.4

The world is grey, the mountains old, The forge's fire is ashen-cold No harp is wrung, no hammer falls: The darkness dwells in Durin's halls The shadow lies upon his tomb In Moria, in Khazad-dum.†
Chpt 2.4 (definition 2)

Then comes _We have taken the twentyfirst hall of North end to dwell in.†
Chpt 2.5

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(1) (dwelling as in: a modest dwelling)
a house or shelter in which someone lives

(2) (dwell as in: It dwells in the forest.)
make one's home in; or to live in; or to stay (in a place)

(dwell as in: Don't dwell on it.)
to think, communicate, or let attention stay on (or return to) something for a prolonged period