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		| The shadow about it reached out like two vast wings. | 
	
 like two vast wings
 you use like to support your argument why would tolkien say 
like
but heres the other half of the sentence:
like 
two  vast wings 
why use the word two...this implies that the shadow spread out from him in two directions. not in all directions why would they only go in two directions unless they were wings?