Both Uses of
ingenious
in
The Hobbit
- We shall soon before the break of day start on our long journey, a journey from which some of us, or perhaps all of us (except our friend and counsellor, the ingenious wizard Gandalf) may never return.†
Chpt 1
- ...they invented some of the machines that have since troubled the world, especially the ingenious devices for killing large numbers of people at once,
Chpt 4 *ingenious = inventive
Definition:
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(ingenious) showing cleverness and originality