All 6 Uses of
contrived
in
The Fellowship of the Ring
- How that was contrived we cannot guess; but Gollum is cunning, and the spies of the Enemy are many.†
Chpt 2.2 *
- Not if some better way can be contrived?†
Chpt 2.2
- I will send out messages, such as I can contrive, to those whom I know in the wide world; but so perilous are the lands now become that some may well miscarry, or come no quicker than you yourself.†
Chpt 2.3
- 'I wonder if this is a contrivance of the Enemy,' said Boromir.†
Chpt 2.3
- For not in doing or contriving, nor in choosing between this course and another, can I avail; but only in knowing what was and is, and in part also what shall be.†
Chpt 2.7
- If Gollum had contrived to follow them, he remained unseen and unheard.†
Chpt 2.10
Definition:
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(contrived) unnatural seeming (due to careful planning)
or more rarely:
arranged (that something should happen)