All 6 Uses of
chasm
in
The Return of the King
- So deep and narrow was that chasm that the sky was dark, and in it small stars glinted.†
Chpt 5.2 *chasm = a large gap or divide
- Ever and anon the furnaces far below its ashen cone would grow hot and with a great surging and throbbing pour forth rivers of molten rock from chasms in its sides.†
Chpt 6.1chasms = large gaps or divides
- A short way beyond the way-meeting, after another steep incline, a flying bridge of stone leapt over the chasm and bore the road across into the tumbled slopes and glens of the Morgai.†
Chpt 6.2chasm = a large gap or divide
- 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 6.3chasms = large gaps or divides
- The light sprang up again, and there on the brink of the chasm, at the very Crack of Doom, stood Frodo, black against the glare, tense, erect, but still as if he had been turned to stone.†
Chpt 6.3chasm = a large gap or divide
- Frodo gave a cry, and there he was, fallen upon his knees at the chasm's edge.†
Chpt 6.3
Definition:
a large and deep and steep-sided opening on the earth's surface; or (more rarely) any large gap
or:
a very large difference -- often of opinion
or:
a very large difference -- often of opinion