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.
p. 17.3ingenious = clever (inventive and skillful)
- ...they invented some of the machines that have since troubled the world, especially the ingenious devices for killing large numbers of people at once,
p. 59.6 *ingenious = inventive
Definition:
showing cleverness and originality