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endure
used in The Two Towers

2 meanings, 18 uses
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1  —2 uses as in:
endured the pain
Definition
to suffer through (or put up with something difficult or unpleasant)
  • how much more of this would they have to endure
    4.9 — Book 4 Chapter 9 — Shelob's Lair (16% in)
endure = suffer through
  • 'Yes,' said Aragorn, 'we shall all need the endurance of Dwarves.
    3.1 — Book 3 Chapter 1 — The Departure of Boromir (97% in)

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2  —1 use as in:
endure through the ages
Definition
to continue to exist
  • the spell endured
    3.10 — Book 3 Chapter 10 — The Voice of Saruman (21% in)
endured = continued to exist
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  • Not the doughtiest soldier of old Gondor, nor the most savage Orc entrapped, had ever thus endured her, or set blade to her beloved flesh.
    4.10 — Book 4 Chapter 10 — The Choices of Master Samwise (8% in)
  • In Minas Tirith they endure the East Wind, but they do not ask it for tidings.
    3.1 — Book 3 Chapter 1 — The Departure of Boromir (76% in)
  • It is a mark of evil things that came in the Great Darkness that they cannot abide the Sun; but Saruman's Orcs can endure it, even if they hate it.
    3.4 — Book 3 Chapter 4 — Treebeard (48% in)
  • Nothing that we have endured of late has seemed so grievous as the treason of Isengard.
    3.5 — Book 3 Chapter 5 — The White Rider (54% in)
  • A year shall I endure for every day that passes until your return.
    3.6 — Book 3 Chapter 6 — The King of the Golden Hall (92% in)
  • Swift and enduring were the steeds of Rohan, but there were many leagues to go.
    3.7 — Book 3 Chapter 7 — Helm's Deep (2% in)
  • But I will endure Fangorn, if I have your promise to come back to the caves and share their wonder with me.
    3.8 — Book 3 Chapter 8 — The Road to Isengard (33% in)
  • How comes it that you can endure such company?
    3.10 — Book 3 Chapter 10 — The Voice of Saruman (48% in)
  • They had come to the desolation that lay before Mordor: the lasting monument to the dark labour of its slaves that should endure when all their purposes were made void; a land defiled, diseased beyond all healing — unless the Great Sea should enter in and wash it with oblivion.
    4.2 — Book 4 Chapter 2 — The Passage of the Marshes (77% in)
  • The handiwork of Men of old could still be seen in its straight sure flight and level course: now and again it cut its way through hillside slopes, or leaped over a stream upon a wide shapely arch of enduring masonry; but at last all signs of stonework faded, save for a broken pillar here and there, peering out of bushes at the side, or old paving-stones still lurking amid weeds and moss.
    4.4 — Book 4 Chapter 4 — Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit (12% in)
  • Gimli the dwarf took it ill, but the hobbits endured it.
    4.5 — Book 4 Chapter 5 — The Window on the West (53% in)
  • For I would learn more of Minas Ithil and Osgiliath, and Minas Tirith the long-enduring.
    4.5 — Book 4 Chapter 5 — The Window on the West (75% in)
  • But no — if he will go with you, you must now endure him.
    4.6 — Book 4 Chapter 6 — The Forbidden Pool (86% in)
  • At length, just as they felt that they could endure no more, they saw Gollum's eyes peering down at them again.
    4.8 — Book 4 Chapter 8 — The Stairs of Cirith Ungol (44% in)
  • But how long was it, how much more of this would they have to endure, or could they endure?
    4.9 — Book 4 Chapter 9 — Shelob's Lair (16% in)

There are no more uses of "endure" in The Two Towers.

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