Both Uses of
constrained
in
The Two Towers
- Never in former days would any high lord of this land have constrained a man to abandon such a quest as mine.†
Chpt 3.2 *constrained = restricted; or lacking spontaneity
- How long, I wonder, has he been constrained to come often to his glass for inspection and instruction, and the Orthanc-stone so bent towards Barad-dur that, if any save a will of adamant now looks into it, it will bear his mind and sight swiftly thither?†
Chpt 3.11
Definitions:
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(1)
(constrained) restricted or inhibited
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely (and archaically), constrain can mean to force someone to do something.