Elvish Healing
 

i dont know how accurate the film is to the book, but in the film i noticed how both Arwen and Elrond, when healing Frodo or whatever, said
"Lasto beth nin. Tolo dan nan galad."

is this the extent of elvish healing - one phrase? or do they do or say other things?

Well i think thats juz part of the Elvish healing phrase...to tell you the truth i myself was wondeing the same question! So can anyone outhere to clarify this pls?
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I'm just a humble hobbit, not an Elven scholar, so I can't tell you what the phrase means. I'm sure that it isn't a healing spell; the power of the Elves lay within themselves, not in spells and incantations.

Perhaps the phrase was spoken to help the healer to concentrate his/her mind.

Hello! ahhh something i can answer it means "hear my voice, come back to the light!" also used as part of the water spell but changed, "Lasto beth daer" hear the Great word! and i suppose they're just calling frodo from the wraith land or what ever!

Hmm... Interesting.

When Aragorn was healing Faramir, Eowyn and Merry in the Houses of Healing he also speaks to the injured, so it seems to be a "healer" thing not and "Elven-healer" thing, although, Aragorn was trained by Elrond.

Faramir got injured???? *races to his side

It sounds like they're using a rather early-medieval approach, actually; medicine plus prayers. That happened a quite a bit several thousand years ago; you'd be given, say, larkspur paste or some other herb for what ailed you, and additionally you were told to say three prayers daily (or whichever amount) to a certain deity - or the one deity - who would help you out. They thought it concentrated the feeling, and I can't say as they were wrong [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img].

Well, in the book things don`t go as fast as in the movie!
On Weathertop, Frodo is not stabbed in the breast, but in his left shoulder,( because he throws himself forward to stab at the Nazgûl`s legs). A splinter of the morgul-knife breaks off and stays in Frodos shoulder. Only after a long, wearisome journey of 17 days(!), his condition slowly deteriorating, he reaches Elronds house.
And Elrond has obviously some skill as a surgeon, for he removes the splinter which was deeply buried and had been working inwards. Anyhow, Arwen had nothing to do with it in the book!

Here is what he says in the movie:

Which means: Hear my voice, come back to the light.

This is also a modern approach as well. Recently the health care profession has become aware of the healing power of the patient's state of mind. Thank goodness, or otherwise, I wouldn’t have a job!

I like the line because on the road to healing the patient’s will to get well is just as important as any medical procedure.