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Rpsh Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary
living stone
"In a great hall with pillars hewn out of the living stone sat the Elvenking on a chair of carven wood."
What's “living stone”? I think stone is just a kind of material, or a kind of object. Why does the writer say "living stone"? I find it in the book <the hobbit>. When I look it up in the online dictionary, I find an example sentence which said "Coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious"( Like something form HOLY BIBLE) Why describe a person as stone?
What's “living stone”? I think stone is just a kind of material, or a kind of object. Why does the writer say "living stone"? I find it in the book <the hobbit>. When I look it up in the online dictionary, I find an example sentence which said "Coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious"( Like something form HOLY BIBLE) Why describe a person as stone?
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The pillars were carved from the stone as it sat, not carved from quarried stone and placed there. The space around the pillars was created by hollowing out the stone around them. The stone of the pillars is still connected to the earth as it always has been.
- The pillars were carved from the stone as it sat, not carved from quarried stone and placed there.
- The space around the pillars was created by hollowing out the stone around them.
- The stone of the pillars is still connected to the earth as it always has been.
- To speak of live stone is plain English in that meaning, and Tolkien has taken the word one extra step to "living".
- The stone is not actually supposed to be alive like an animal or plant, but The Hobbit takes place in a fantasy world where magic is real.
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The pillars were carved from the stone as it sat, not carved from quarried stone and placed there. The space around the pillars was created by hollowing out the stone around them. The stone of the pillars is still connected to the earth as it always has been.
To speak of live stone is plain English in that meaning, and Tolkien has taken the word one extra step to "living". The stone is no
To speak of live stone is plain English in that meaning, and Tolkien has taken the word one extra step to "living". The stone is no
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So, it can be considered as a kind of literal and poetic description? OK, I get it! Thank you!
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