All 18 Uses of
endure
in
The Two Towers
- In Minas Tirith they endure the East Wind, but they do not ask it for tidings.†
Chpt 3.1 (definition 2)
- 'Yes,' said Aragorn, 'we shall all need the endurance of Dwarves.†
Chpt 3.1 (definition 1)
- 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.†
Chpt 3.4 (definition 2)
- Nothing that we have endured of late has seemed so grievous as the treason of Isengard.†
Chpt 3.5 (definition 2)
- A year shall I endure for every day that passes until your return.†
Chpt 3.6 (definition 2)
- Swift and enduring were the steeds of Rohan, but there were many leagues to go.†
Chpt 3.7 (definition 2)
- But I will endure Fangorn, if I have your promise to come back to the caves and share their wonder with me.†
Chpt 3.8 (definition 2)
- the spell endured
Chpt 3.10 (definition 2) *endured = continued to exist
- How comes it that you can endure such company?†
Chpt 3.10 (definition 2)
- 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.†
Chpt 4.2 (definition 2)
- 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.†
Chpt 4.4 (definition 2)
- Gimli the dwarf took it ill, but the hobbits endured it.†
Chpt 4.5 (definition 2)
- For I would learn more of Minas Ithil and Osgiliath, and Minas Tirith the long-enduring.†
Chpt 4.5 (definition 2)
- But no — if he will go with you, you must now endure him.†
Chpt 4.6 (definition 2)
- At length, just as they felt that they could endure no more, they saw Gollum's eyes peering down at them again.†
Chpt 4.8 (definition 2)
- how much more of this would they have to endure
Chpt 4.9 (definition 1) *endure = suffer through
- But how long was it, how much more of this would they have to endure, or could they endure?†
Chpt 4.9 (definition 2)
- 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.†
Chpt 4.10 (definition 2)
Definitions:
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(1) (endure as in: endured the pain) to suffer through (or put up with something difficult or unpleasant)
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(2) (endure as in: endure through the ages) to continue to exist