Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word mallorn.

Examples

  • With them will go beauty, memory, mallorn-trees, and Middle-earth itself.

    'The Wrong Sow' Shippey, Tom 2006

  • As the light grew it filtered through the yellow leaves of the mallorn, and it seemed to the hobbits that the early sun of a cool summer's morning was shining.

    The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien, J. R. R. 1965

  • No mallorn lifted its gold-hung boughs beyond the Land of Lórien.

    The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien, J. R. R. 1965

  • Then they turned away from the paved road and took a path that went off into a deep thicket of mallorn-trees, and passed on, winding through rolling woodlands of silver shadow, leading them ever down, southwards and eastwards, towards the shores of the River.

    The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien, J. R. R. 1965

  • He entered behind Haldir, and found that he was in a chamber of oval shape, in the midst of which grew the trunk of the great mallorn, now tapering towards its crown, and yet making still a pillar of wide girth.

    The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien, J. R. R. 1965

  • Upon it, as a double crown, grew two circles of trees: the outer had bark of snowy white, and were leafless but beautiful in their shapely nakedness; the inner were mallorn-trees of great height, still arrayed in pale gold.

    The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien, J. R. R. 1965

  • It would be a poor life in a land where no mallorn grew.

    The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien, J. R. R. 1965

  • The branches of the mallorn-tree grew out nearly straight from the trunk, and then swept upward; but near the top the main stem divided into a crown of many boughs, and among these they found that there had been built a wooden platform, or flet as such things were called in those days: the Elves called it a talan.

    The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien, J. R. R. 1965

  • Upon the further side there rose to a great height a green wall encircling a green hill thronged with mallorn-trees taller than any they had yet seen in all the land.

    The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien, J. R. R. 1965

  • But if there are mallorn-trees beyond the Great Sea, none have reported it. '

    The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien, J. R. R. 1965

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.