All 8 Uses of
torment
in
The Two Towers
- I would have guided Frodo to Mordor and gone with him to the end; but if I seek him now in the wilderness, I must abandon the captives to torment and death.†
Chpt 3.1 *torment = to cause or to experience great mental or physical suffering
- No listener would have guessed from their words that they had suffered cruelly, and been in dire peril, going without hope towards torment and death; or that even now, as they knew well, they had little chance of ever finding friend or safety again.†
Chpt 3.3
- It was fashioned by the builders of old, who smoothed the Ring of Isengard, and yet it seemed a thing not made by the craft of Men, but riven from the bones of the earth in the ancient torment of the hills.†
Chpt 3.8
- Until seven times the years in which he tormented us have passed, we shall not tire of watching him.†
Chpt 3.10tormented = caused great mental or physical suffering
- And that therefore the hobbit was captive there, driven to look in the glass for his torment by Saruman.†
Chpt 3.11torment = to cause or to experience great mental or physical suffering
- Only I would not have you go to death or to torment.†
Chpt 4.6
- And now the red light in the sky seemed stronger; though they could not tell whether a dreadful morning were indeed coming to this place of shadow, or whether they saw only the flame of some great violence of Sauron in the torment of Gorgoroth beyond.†
Chpt 4.8
- It grew, until almost it seemed to them that smell was the only clear sense left to them, and that was for their torment.†
Chpt 4.9