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descend the mountain
Definition
move or slope downward
- ...a great bird like an eagle high in the air, descending slowly in wide circles down towards the earth.3.1 — Book 3 Chapter 1 — The Departure of Boromir (6% in)
descending = moving downward
There are no more uses of "descend" flagged with this meaning in The Two Towers.
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- From sun and moon and star they had been safe underground, but now a star had descended into the very earth.4.9 — Book 4 Chapter 9 — Shelob's Lair (44% in)
- For the moment Aragorn was at a loss: the orc-trail had descended into the valley, but there it had vanished.3.2 — Book 3 Chapter 2 — The Riders of Rohan (2% in)
- In the narrow ravine a rough path descended like a steep stair into the plain.3.2 — Book 3 Chapter 2 — The Riders of Rohan (12% in)
- The orc-band began to descend a narrow ravine leading down into the misty plain below.3.3 — Book 3 Chapter 3 — The Uruk-Hai (31% in)
- 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.3.4 — Book 3 Chapter 4 — Treebeard (71% in)
- 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.3.4 — Book 3 Chapter 4 — Treebeard (98% in)
- There he could see the heads of the trees descending in ranks towards the plain from which they had come.3.5 — Book 3 Chapter 5 — The White Rider (24% in)
- Following him they descended quickly from the high shelf and made their way back through the forest, down the bank of the Entwash.3.5 — Book 3 Chapter 5 — The White Rider (90% in)
- As he did so, he curled his legs and arms up round him, like a spider whose descending thread is snapped.4.1 — Book 4 Chapter 1 — The Taming of Smeagol (69% in)
- 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.4.4 — Book 4 Chapter 4 — Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit (79% in)
- ' 'Because Aragorn is descended in direct lineage, father to father, from Isildur Elendil's son himself.4.5 — Book 4 Chapter 5 — The Window on the West (4% in)
- 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.4.5 — Book 4 Chapter 5 — The Window on the West (55% in)
- ' 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.4.10 — Book 4 Chapter 10 — The Choices of Master Samwise (39% in)
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