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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steverooo" data-source="post: 2041562" data-attributes="member: 9410">What IS he doing?For those of you wishing for spell-less Rangers, agian I say: Use the Barbarian.  Be done with it!In the LotR series, Aragorn isn't given to doing dumb things, wasting words, wasting time.  Such actions are inconsistent with his character.I have asked this question before, and NEVER gotten a good answer to it...  To those who don't want to accept spellcasting Rangers, based upon Aragorn, I will again ask it: What the heck is Aragorn doing, while Frodo is busy dying from the wounds of the Morgul-blade?  Are you really trying to tell me that Aragorn, the healer, stops to sing a song, instead of tending to him?"He sat down on the ground, and taking the dagger-hilt laid it on his knees, and he sang over it a slow song in a strange tongue.  Then setting it aside, he turned to Frodo and in a soft tone spoke words the others could not catch.  From the pouch at his belt he drew out the long leaves of a plant."  FotR:233.Note well that "NOT casting a spell!" is not an answer.  What IS Aragorn doing, in this scene?  (Not "What is he NOT doing?")</blockquote>