All 50 Uses
peril
in
The Two Towers
(Auto-generated)
- The peril of missing the trail or signs of other coming and going seems to me the greater.†
Chpt 3.2peril = danger
- It is against our law to let strangers wander at will in our land, until the king himself shall give them leave, and more strict is the command in these days of peril.†
Chpt 3.2
- Also we are on the very edge of Fangorn, and it is perilous to touch the trees of that wood, it is said.†
Chpt 3.2perilous = dangerous
- Remember, it is perilous to cut bough or twig from a living tree in Fangorn.†
Chpt 3.2
- Still I do not doubt that you guess right, and that we are in peril here, by night or day.†
Chpt 3.2peril = danger
- 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
- He was saved from a great peril, but many lie before him still.†
Chpt 3.5
- Galadriel told me that he was in peril.†
Chpt 3.5
- He does not yet know his peril.†
Chpt 3.5
- Certainly the forest of Fangorn is perilous-not least to those that are too ready with their axes; and Fangorn himself, he is perilous too; yet he is wise and kindly nonetheless.†
Chpt 3.5perilous = dangerous
- Certainly the forest of Fangorn is perilous-not least to those that are too ready with their axes; and Fangorn himself, he is perilous too; yet he is wise and kindly nonetheless.†
Chpt 3.5
- We must go down to face a peril near despair, yet that deadly peril is removed.†
Chpt 3.5peril = danger
- We must go down to face a peril near despair, yet that deadly peril is removed.†
Chpt 3.5
- Grey is their raiment, for the Elves clad them, and thus they have passed through the shadow of great perils to your hall.†
Chpt 3.6perils = dangers
- you are come into a peril greater even than the wit of Wormtongue could weave into your dreams.†
Chpt 3.6peril = danger
- And other perils draw ever nearer.†
Chpt 3.6perils = dangers
- Even now he plays a game with peril and wins a throw.†
Chpt 3.6peril = danger
- Do you not remember how eagerly he urged that no man should be spared on a wildgoose chase northward, when the immediate peril was westward?†
Chpt 3.6
- They heard the roar of voices and the thudding of the rams; and then in a sudden flash of light they beheld the peril of the gates.†
Chpt 3.7
- You do not know your peril.†
Chpt 3.7
- I have but given good counsel in peril, and made use of the speed of Shadowfax.†
Chpt 3.8
- They had little wood for firing, and none would have dared to take an axe to the strange trees, even if Gandalf had not warned them to hurt neither bark nor bough at their great peril.†
Chpt 3.8
- 'Then that is the most perilous wood in Middle-earth,' said Gimli.†
Chpt 3.8perilous = dangerous
- Let us make this bargain-if we both return safe out of the perils that await us, we will journey for a while together.†
Chpt 3.8perils = dangers
- This is a perilous night, and I must ride fast.†
Chpt 3.9perilous = dangerous
- And I have had a perilous journey, and I am hungry and weary.†
Chpt 3.9
- I have been in Orthanc and I know my peril.†
Chpt 3.10peril = danger
- I am old, and fear no peril any more.†
Chpt 3.10
- Now we feel the peril that we were warned of.†
Chpt 3.10
- 'Peril comes in the night when least expected,' he said.†
Chpt 3.11
- Perilous to us all are the devices of an art deeper than we possess ourselves.†
Chpt 3.11perilous = dangerous
- As if suddenly made fully aware of the peril of their position, alone, in the growing light of day, so near to this vast menace, Frodo quickly drew his frail grey hood close upon his head, and stepped down into the dell.†
Chpt 4.3peril = danger
- The name of the perilous place and the high pass he could not tell, or would not.†
Chpt 4.3perilous = dangerous
- For some time they had been cut off from the world, as if in an invisible island; now they were laid bare again, peril had returned.†
Chpt 4.3peril = danger
- Sam scrambling below the outfall of the lake, smelling and touching the unfamiliar plants and trees, forgetful for the moment of Mordor, was reminded suddenly of their ever-present peril.†
Chpt 4.4
- You are in peril, and you would not have gone far by field or road this day.†
Chpt 4.4
- He leads now in all perilous ventures.†
Chpt 4.4perilous = dangerous
- Though surely there are many perils in the world.†
Chpt 4.5perils = dangers
- And I do not need any to teach me of our peril.†
Chpt 4.5peril = danger
- For it is perilous for mortal man to walk out of the world of this Sun, and few of old came thence unchanged, 'tis said.†
Chpt 4.5perilous = dangerous
- For if Boromir was then in peril and was slain, I must fear that all my companions perished too.†
Chpt 4.5peril = danger
- But be that as it may, ancient tales teach us also the peril of rash words concerning such things as — heirlooms.†
Chpt 4.5
- What in truth this Thing is I cannot yet guess; but some heirloom of power and peril it must be.†
Chpt 4.5
- Not I. For I deem it perilous now for mortal man wilfully to seek out the Elder People.†
Chpt 4.5perilous = dangerous
- 'I don't know about perilous,' said Sam.†
Chpt 4.5
- 'It strikes me that folk takes their peril with them into Lorien, and finds it there because they've brought it.†
Chpt 4.5peril = danger
- But perhaps you could call her perilous, because she's so strong in herself.†
Chpt 4.5perilous = dangerous
- He took his peril with him?†
Chpt 4.5peril = danger
- How you have increased my sorrow, you two strange wanderers from a far country, bearing the peril of Men!†
Chpt 4.5
- Or I am wise enough to know that there are some perils from which a man must flee.†
Chpt 4.5perils = dangers
Definitions:
-
(1)
(peril) danger
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)