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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Emberashh" data-source="post: 9350135" data-attributes="member: 7040941">No, he didn't. And Tolkien acknowledged in one of his letters that Men are never supposed to be able to use Magic. It was actually a mistake he made in describing Numenor; so if the Numenorians weren't supposed to be spellcasters, Aragorn sure as hell isn't.DND idiosyncrasies are irrelevant. Whats actually being described isn't anything more than folk medicine. Ie, say some prayers and then shove some plants into the wound. You're projecting something that isn't actually there. I too have shouted someone awake. In real life. Pretty sure I wasn't doing magic. That isn't what Tolkien said. He leaves it ambiguous, but makes the point that the narrators of these events (the Hobbits) don't know what they're actually seeing. And something else that has to be considered is that as he's relating here, it isn't even Magic in the conventional sense. Its following on the idea of "healer kings" in medieval Christianity (we even still see aspects of this in modern day Catholicism; the Pope washing feet etc), following on from Jesus himself. And more to the point of the topic, the point of clarifying all of this, is to make the point that Magic, as in waving wands and saying stupid words, doesn't have anything to do with his occupation as a Ranger. Even accepting it is "magic", its a factor of his Background and his Race, not his Class. All other Rangers don't share these healing capabilities; its entirely unique to Aragorn. You can then argue the point of the Ranger-as-Class is to just be Aragorn, and that was indeed why the oriignal homebrew, that still haunts us today, was created. But for me, my argument is you'll get a better result if you stop focusing on that single character.</blockquote>

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