[ SECRET POST #2562 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2562 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I can see fighting/healing being important for noble elves like Elrond, but Tauriel is one of the "lowly" elves. Would they bother teaching foot soldiers the super special glowing healing arts?

Well, in The Silmarillion, there were two characters written as great warriors who were also capable of (at least some) healing ability. They were Beleg and Mablung, Marchwardens of Doriath (high-ranking border guards, basically), decidedly non-noble and actually held somewhat similar rank to Tauriel, since she's supposed to be Thranduil's captain of the guard. So it is not inconceivable that Elven soldiers of lower social status could have healing skills.

Now the really fanon thing here with Tauriel is that she's a woman, and therefore unlikely to be a captain of the guard in the first place. Tolkien seemed to think that the chief domain of Elven women was to be non-fighting healers, though he did also write that they could fight fiercely when the need arose. See what I wrote about that in the reply below. Anyway, I think we already have to accept that Tauriel is special in this regard, being a warrior by profession, so once that is in place there's nothing to stop her from having healing skills as well.

Also, we don't know enough about Elven healing in canon to say for sure whether it was all glowing and magical or not (honestly, I think this is an invention of PJ's). The best source I can think of is the scene in RotK where Aragorn (raised by Elves) healed Eowyn, and it mostly involved him speaking to her. See it here: http://www.henneth-annun.net/resources/events_view.cfm?EVID=1449