All 6 Uses of
ominous
in
The Return of the King
- Dull they seemed and harsh in the heavy air, braying ominously.†
Chpt 5.3
- All was ominously quiet.
Chpt 6.1 *ominously = threatening or foreshadowing bad things to come
- As Sam stood there, even though the Ring was not on him but hanging by its chain about his neck, he felt himself enlarged, as if he were robed in a huge distorted shadow of himself, a vast and ominous threat halted upon the walls of Mordor.†
Chpt 6.1
- Behind it there hung a vast shadow, ominous as a thunder-cloud, the veils of Barad-dur that was reared far way upon a long spur of the Ashen Mountains thrust down from the North.†
Chpt 6.2
- The Mountain standing ominous and alone had looked taller than it was.†
Chpt 6.3
- Far away now rising towards the South the sun, piercing the smokes and haze, burned ominous, a dull bleared disc of red; but all Mordor lay about the Mountain like a dead land, silent, shadow-folded, waiting for some dreadful stroke.†
Chpt 6.3
Definition:
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(ominous) threatening (suggestive of, or foreshadowing bad things to come)