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Originally Posted by Galadriel55
I also don't like the word "leechcraft". For me it carries too much of an overtone of uselessness and guesswork, and an idea of a universal cure.
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Well, two chapters prior in
The Battle of the Pelennor Fields, Imrahil says:
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'Men of Rohan! Are there no leeches among you? [Eowyn] is hurt, to the death maybe, but I deem that she yet lives.'
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To the Gondorian mind, at least, it seems that the term 'leech' carried no negative connotation.