But they brought you as a snare for my ensnaring.

Protocol, he thought sourly, was invented by the devil, for the ensnaring of innocent hearts.

Although the sons of Zebedee were evidently netsmen, Christian iconography has drawn on angling to depict anything from the means of grace by which God draws our souls up into Heaven to His ensnaring of the monstrous Leviathan.

The making of the Necklace was not in the Tale, as it is in S, part of the king's request: the idea of it was indeed hatched by Ufedhin during his captivity as a lure 'for the greater ensnaring of the king' (II.

The text that follows in this draft is very close - much of it indeed virtually identical - to the long passage interpolated into AAm ($$43-5) on the fear of Orome among the Quendi, the ensnaring of them by the servants of Melkor, and the breeding of the Orcs from those captured.