All 4 Uses of
abyss
in
The Return of the King
- Go back to the abyss prepared for you!†
Chpt 5.4 *abyss = a hole or dropoff so deep the bottom cannot be seen -- often used figuratively to imply a frightening bottomless pit
- Out from the Dark Tower's huge western gate it came over a deep abyss by a vast bridge of iron, and then passing into the plain it ran for a league between two smoking chasms, and so reached a long sloping causeway that led up on to the Mountain's eastern side.†
Chpt 6.3
- Gollum on the edge of the abyss was fighting like a mad thing with an unseen foe.†
Chpt 6.3
- I stand upon some dreadful brink, and it is utterly dark in the abyss before my feet, but whether there is any light behind me I cannot tell.†
Chpt 6.5