All 15 Uses of
therefore
in
The Fellowship of the Ring
- But you have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.†
Chpt 1.2 *therefore = for that reason
- I do not know the reason for your flight, and therefore I do not know by what means your pursuers will assail you.†
Chpt 1.3
- You must go — and therefore we must, too.†
Chpt 1.5
- Now, therefore, things shall be openly spoken that have been hidden from all but a few until this day.†
Chpt 2.2
- "This I will have as weregild for my father, and my brother," he said; and therefore whether we would or no, he took it to treasure it.†
Chpt 2.2
- For few, I deem, know of our deeds, and therefore guess little of their peril, if we should fail at last.†
Chpt 2.2
- Therefore my brother, seeing how desperate was our need, was eager to heed the dream and seek for Imladris; but since the way was full of doubt and danger, I took the journey upon myself.†
Chpt 2.2
- Therefore I went first to meet him and hear his tale.†
Chpt 2.2
- Therefore it must be shunned.†
Chpt 2.2
- Therefore Boromir will also be in the Company.†
Chpt 2.3
- Therefore I advise that we should go neither over the mountains, nor round them, but under them.†
Chpt 2.4
- Therefore we should leave by the eastern arch of the hall, and bear right and south, and go downwards.†
Chpt 2.5
- Therefore they were called the Galadhrim, the Tree-people.†
Chpt 2.6
- They heard my voice across the Nimrodel, and knew that I was one of their Northern kindred, and therefore they did not hinder our crossing; and afterwards they heard my song.†
Chpt 2.6
- Though you have been our guests,' said Celeborn, 'you have not yet eaten with us, and we bid you, therefore, to a parting feast, here between the flowing waters that will bear you far from Lorien.†
Chpt 2.8
Definition:
for that reason (what follows is so because of what was just said)