The Two Towers

Death was ever present, because the Númenoreans stül.
as they had in their old kingdom, and so lost it, hungered
after endless life unchanging. Kings made tombs more splen-
did than houses of the living, and counted old names in the
rolls of their descent dearer than the names of sons. Childless
lords sat in aged halls musing on heraldry; in secret chambers
withered men compounded strong elixirs, or in high cold
towers asked questions of the stars.
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The Return of the King

Book Five

Minas Tirith

the great fief of Belfalas, dwelt Prince Imrahil in his castle of Dol Amroth by the sea, and he was of high blood, and his folk also, tall men and proud with sea-grey eyes.

The splendor of Gondor is only kept in the royal guards, an empty symbol with no one to protect. burthen

The Passing of the Grey Company

Book 6

The Tower of Cirith Ungol

... hideous brooding uncertainty.

The Land of Shadow

high up in the angle where the wented spur branched away from the main range, stood the old castle of Durthang, now one of the many orc-holds that clustered about the dale of Udân.