All 4 Uses
tradition
in
The Fellowship of the Ring
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- Only the Elves still preserve any records of that vanished time, and their traditions are concerned almost entirely with their own history, in which Men appear seldom and Hobbits are not mentioned at all.†
Chpt Prol.traditions = long-established or previously long-established practices or beliefs
- There remained, of course, the ancient tradition concerning the high king at Fornost, or Norbury as they called it, away north of the Shire.†
Chpt Prol. *
- At the end of the Third Age the part played by the Hobbits in the great events that led to the inclusion of the Shire in the Reunited Kingdom awakened among them a more widespread interest in their own history; and many of their traditions, up to that time still mainly oral, were collected and Written down.†
Chpt Prol.traditions = long-established or previously long-established practices or beliefs
- But it was an old tradition that away over there stood the Grey Havens, from which at times elven-ships set sail, never to return.†
Chpt 1.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(tradition) a long-established or previously long-established practice or belief
and/or:
one or more practices, beliefs, or stories passed down through generations within a specific culture or group - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)