Both Uses of
siege
in
The Two Towers
- We bring little provision, for we rode forth to open battle, not to a siege.†
Chpt 3.7 *
- There's no grief in that; but think-there's someone loose hereabouts as is more dangerous than any other damned rebel that ever walked since the bad old times, since the Great Siege.†
Chpt 4.10
Definition:
a military tactic in which a fortified place is surrounded and isolated while it is attacked over time
or:
any prolonged attack, effort, or period of trouble
or:
any prolonged attack, effort, or period of trouble