What is "the crossings"

Usage examples of "the crossings".

Down the ancient road they came that led through the long defile of Sirion, past the isle where Minas Tirith of Finrod had stood, and so through the land between Malduin and Sirion, and on through the eaves of Brethil to the Crossings of Teiglin.

The more Harry pored over the book, the more he realized how much was in there, not only the handy hints and shortcuts on potions that was earning him such a glowing reputation with Slughorn, but also the imaginative little jinxes and hexes scribbled in the margins, which Harry was sure, judging by the crossings-out and revisions, that the Prince had invented himself.

And even as he sat there Mablung with a company of Grey-elves came over the Crossings of Teiglin, and he knew T?

Horace Bixby and George Ritchie have charted the crossings and laid out the courses by compass.

Ritchie have charted the crossings and laid out the courses by compass.

Even so, there are certain times of the day when the crossings in between can be made easier still: to come from Adonar to Mithgar, dawn is best, for it is neither day nor night, but in between.

There was a great battle in Lebennin at the Crossings of Erui, in which much of the best blood in Gondor was shed.

He was not surprised by the cast of this terrain, for the crossings in between are fair matched to one another.

As they rode across the broken foothills and into the plain beyond, they had seen again and again other mounted men in the distance, but often, on every path or road, groups of infantry watching the crossings.