All 14 Uses of

descend
in
The Two Towers

...a great bird like an eagle high in the air, descending slowly in wide circles down towards the earth.
Chpt 3.1 *

descending = moving downward

For the moment Aragorn was at a loss: the orc-trail had descended into the valley, but there it had vanished.†
Chpt 3.2

In the narrow ravine a rough path descended like a steep stair into the plain.†
Chpt 3.2

The orc-band began to descend a narrow ravine leading down into the misty plain below.†
Chpt 3.3

The hobbits saw that they were descending into a great dingle, almost as round as a bowl, very wide and deep, crowned at the rim with the high dark evergreen hedge.†
Chpt 3.4

They had descended into a long fold of the land that fell away southward; now they began to climb up, and up, on to the high western ridge.†
Chpt 3.4

There he could see the heads of the trees descending in ranks towards the plain from which they had come.†
Chpt 3.5

Following him they descended quickly from the high shelf and made their way back through the forest, down the bank of the Entwash.†
Chpt 3.5

As he did so, he curled his legs and arms up round him, like a spider whose descending thread is snapped.†
Chpt 4.1

They named themselves Mablung and Damrod, soldiers of Gondor, and they were Rangers of Ithilien; for they were descended from folk who lived in Ithilien at one time, before it was overrun.†
Chpt 4.4

' 'Because Aragorn is descended in direct lineage, father to father, from Isildur Elendil's son himself.†
Chpt 4.5

After a little they found that they were on a path descending steeply; soon it grew so narrow that they went in single file, brushing a stony wall on either side; their guards steered them from behind with hands laid firmly on their shoulders.†
Chpt 4.5

From sun and moon and star they had been safe underground, but now a star had descended into the very earth.†
Chpt 4.9

' As the sheer sides of the Cleft closed about him, before he reached the actual summit, before he looked at last on the path descending into the Nameless Land, he turned.†
Chpt 4.10

Definitions:

(1) (descend as in: descend the mountain)
move or slope downward
(2) (descend as in: in descending order)
move down a scale -- as from larger numbers to smaller, or higher notes to lower
(3) (descend as in: descend from royalty)
figuratively, to have come down a path from the past; i.e., to originate or come from -- such as in reference to ancestors or evolutionary origins
(4) (descend as in: descend into poverty)
figuratively, to move downward to a worse or less prestigious situation
(5) (descend as in: descend into deeper thought)
to move from a higher level of abstraction downward to a lower one (from more general to more specific); or to move from superficial to deeper thought
(6) (descend as in: thieves descended upon us)
to come or arrive -- especially suddenly or from above or as an attack