All 50 Uses
peril
in
The Fellowship of the Ring
(Auto-generated)
- Why they later undertook the hard and perilous crossing of the mountains into Eriador is no longer certain.†
Chpt Prol.perilous = dangerous
- Just in time Bilbo saw his peril, and he fled blindly up the passage away from the water; and once more he was saved by his luck.†
Chpt Prol.peril = danger
- But the Great Rings, the Rings of Power, they were perilous.†
Chpt 1.2perilous = dangerous
- You do not know the real peril yet; but you shall.†
Chpt 1.2peril = danger
- My friend returned out of the great perils bringing the miserable creature with him.†
Chpt 1.2perils = dangers
- I am not made for perilous quests.†
Chpt 1.2perilous = dangerous
- Great perils lie before me.†
Chpt 1.2perils = dangers
- Not if you know of anyone you can trust, and who would be willing to go by your side — and that you would be willing to take into unknown perils.†
Chpt 1.2
- That journey should not prove too perilous, though the Road is less easy than it was, and it will grow worse as the year fails.†
Chpt 1.3perilous = dangerous
- And I warn you that peril is now both before you and behind you, and upon either side.†
Chpt 1.3peril = danger
- I am flying from deadly peril into deadly peril.†
Chpt 1.5
- I am flying from deadly peril into deadly peril.†
Chpt 1.5
- But the Enemy was victorious and Barahir was slain, and Beren escaping through great peril came over the Mountains of Terror into the hidden Kingdom of Thingol in the forest of Neldoreth.†
Chpt 1.11
- In any case we are in great peril here after dark, since the attack of last night, and we can hardly meet greater danger wherever we go.†
Chpt 1.12
- The hobbits were glad to leave the cheerless lands and the perilous Road behind them; but this new country seemed threatening and unfriendly.†
Chpt 1.12perilous = dangerous
- Frodo looked at the stone, and wished that Bilbo had brought home no treasure more perilous, nor less easy to pan with.†
Chpt 1.12
- Since you are here we must risk the peril of the Road and go.†
Chpt 1.12peril = danger
- It is you, Frodo, and that which you bear that brings us all in peril.†
Chpt 1.12
- Our peril will be greatest just ere we reach the river,' said Glorfindel; 'for my heart warns me that the pursuit is now swift behind us, and other danger may be waiting by the Ford.†
Chpt 1.12
- You were in gravest peril while you wore the Ring, for then you were half in the wraith-world yourself, and they might have seized you.†
Chpt 2.1
- They spoke no more of the small news of the Shire far away, nor of the dark shadows and perils that encompassed them, but of the fair things they had seen in the world together, of the Elves, of the stars, of trees, and the gentle fall of the bright year in the woods.†
Chpt 2.1perils = dangers
- Few have ever come hither through greater peril or on an errand more urgent.†
Chpt 2.2peril = danger
- Believe rather that it is so ordered that we, who sit here, and none others, must now find counsel for the peril of the world.†
Chpt 2.2
- And first, so that all may understand what is the peril, the Tale of the Ring shall be told from the beginning even to this present.†
Chpt 2.2
- But now in this latter day they are in peril once more, for to our sorrow the One has been found.†
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
- ' Gandalf fell silent, gazing eastward from the porch to the far peaks of the Misty Mountains, at whose great roots the peril of the world had so long lain hidden.†
Chpt 2.2
- I was lulled by the words of Saruman the Wise; but I should have sought for the truth sooner, and our peril would now be less.†
Chpt 2.2
- But I spoke yet of my dread to none, knowing the peril of an untimely whisper, if it went astray.†
Chpt 2.2
- Into what deadly perils he had gone alone I dared not guess.†
Chpt 2.2perils = dangers
- If a man must needs walk in sight of the Black Gate, or tread the deadly flowers of Morgul Vale, then perils he will have.†
Chpt 2.2
- 'He was cold now and perilous.†
Chpt 2.2perilous = dangerous
- But so it was that I came to Rivendell only three days before the Ring, and news of its peril had already been brought here-which proved well indeed.†
Chpt 2.2peril = danger
- It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.†
Chpt 2.2perilous = dangerous
- If the return to Iarwain be thought too dangerous, then flight to the Sea is now fraught with gravest peril.†
Chpt 2.2peril = danger
- To walk into peril-to Mordor.†
Chpt 2.2
- But for them it holds an even deadlier peril.†
Chpt 2.2
- For a while the hobbits continued to talk and think of the past journey and of the perils that lay ahead; but such was the virtue of the land of Rivendell that soon all fear and anxiety was lifted from their minds.†
Chpt 2.3perils = dangers
- I will send out messages, such as I can contrive, to those whom I know in the wide world; but so perilous are the lands now become that some may well miscarry, or come no quicker than you yourself.†
Chpt 2.3perilous = dangerous
- The Shire, I forebode, is not free now from peril; and these two I had thought to send back there as messengers, to do what they could, according to the fashion of their country, to warn the people of their danger.†
Chpt 2.3peril = danger
- Aragorn and Gandalf walked together or sat speaking of their road and the perils they would meet; and they pondered the storied and figured maps and books of lore that were in the house of Elrond.†
Chpt 2.3perils = dangers
- And perils known and unknown will grow as we go on.†
Chpt 2.3
- But you return now as a member of the Ring's Company, and you are in peril as long as you remain with us.†
Chpt 2.4peril = danger
- The others followed; but Gimli had to be dragged away by Legolas: in spite of the peril he lingered by Balin's tomb with his head bowed.†
Chpt 2.5
- Here let us hope that the virtue of the Elves will keep us tonight from the peril that comes behind.†
Chpt 2.6 *
- But of that perilous land we have heard in Gondor, and it is said that few come out who once go in; and of that few none have escaped unscathed.†
Chpt 2.6perilous = dangerous
- But it is perilous.†
Chpt 2.6
- 'Perilous indeed,' said Aragorn, 'fair and perilous; but only evil need fear it, or those who bring some evil with them.†
Chpt 2.6
- 'Perilous indeed,' said Aragorn, 'fair and perilous; but only evil need fear it, or those who bring some evil with them.†
Chpt 2.6
- If you have indeed come from Moria, the peril cannot be far behind.†
Chpt 2.6peril = danger
Definitions:
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(1)
(peril) danger
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)