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Originally Posted by Bęthberry
Given Elrond's reputation as a healer and Aragorn's 'hands of the King' and Ioreth's remembrance of tribal lore, it would suggest that illness does indeed have a role in the morality of Middle-earth.
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Very good point...these characters did have exceptional healing powers...sickness must have occured. I think this can somewhat be related to the story of Adam and Eve- all was bliss and clean, until Eve and Adam both ate the apple. Then came sickness, decay, and death. A little different, but you get what I mean- Valinor all clean, Arda just like it, one breaks off and branches into evil, Arda now has sickness and surely knows death (I haven't yet read the Silm so forgive me if some of that was a little off, but to my knowledge that's how it went).