Both Uses of
contrived
in
The Two Towers
- There will be no escape again, if we do not contrive it.†
Chpt 3.2 *
- So between them our enemies have contrived only to bring Merry and Pippin with marvellous speed, and in the nick of time, to Fangorn, where otherwise they would never have come at all!†
Chpt 3.5
Definition:
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(contrived) unnatural seeming (due to careful planning)
or more rarely:
arranged (that something should happen)