All 4 Uses of
alliance
in
The Two Towers
- We shall not forsake our old alliance with Gondor, and while they fight we shall aid them: so say I and all who hold with me.†
Chpt 3.2 *alliance = association formed to support common interests
- Not in half a thousand years have they forgotten their grievance that the lords of Gondor gave the Mark to Eorl the Young and made alliance with him.†
Chpt 3.7
- It was inevitable that they should make alliance.†
Chpt 3.10
- Sam's guess was that the Smeagol and Gollum halves (or what in his own mind he called Slinker and Stinker) had made a truce and a temporary alliance: neither wanted the Enemy to get the Ring; both wished to keep Frodo from capture, and under their eye, as long as possible — at any rate as long as Stinker still had a chance of laying hands on his 'Precious'.†
Chpt 4.3
Definition:
an association formed to support common interests