All 3 Uses of
scarcity
in
The Two Towers
- Still lakes mirror them: a glimmering world looks up from dark pools covered with clear glass; cities. such as the mind of Durin could scarce have imagined in his sleep, stretch on through avenues and pillared courts, on into the dark recesses where no light can come.†
Chpt 3.8
- Out from their feet were flung huge buttresses and broken hills that were now at the nearest scarce a dozen miles away.†
Chpt 4.2 *
- Yet now, if the Rohirrim are grown in some ways more like to us, enhanced in arts and gentleness, we too have become more like to them, and can scarce claim any longer the title High.†
Chpt 4.5
Definition:
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(scarcity) shortage (having an amount that is less than desired)