[Nufaciel]

Yeah, I know what you mean. As a whole, people tend to be so comfortable, the think they don't need to know anything. I've taken people down to Mexico and they are floored by the conditions there. My family that lives there lives within ten miles of the Texas border, and they have don't have running water, very few have electricity. In the village where my family lives only my aunt and my grandmother have phones. There is no indoor plumbing (nothing like using an outhouse). They only have to go to school up to grade 6, and their day in school is like 4 hours. Anyway, my point is we have it good, and people take this for granted. I for one try not to do this. I'm always studying something new.

Anyway, in Lord of the Rings, if you remember, the lady in the healing house (can't remember name offhand). She's supposed to be learned in her lore, but she has to be told what athelas is.