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Old 10-16-2002, 06:27 PM   #11
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I've read little of the healers myself but I found a thread about themElvish medicine Perhaps if you don't learn anything helpful on that you can PM someone who seems to.

The rest of the entry White council;
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Nonetheless this was not easy to ascertain. Sauron had, in his turn, perceived the Council from a distance, and had retired into the East to avoid a confrontation with his chief foes, for at that time he was not yet strong enough to challange their combined might. And so the White Council abandoned their fruitless vigil, hoping that the more optimistic assessment of events was accurate. The second meeting was in the year 2851 - but this, too, was a fruitless experience, for the Cpuncil's titular head, Saruman the White, was then already falling into evil waysand he governed the doings of the Council with a firm hand and overrode a projected assault upon Dol Guldur (which had been proposed by Gandalf the Grey) for reasons of his own. Nenety years later the Council met again- and this time Saruman agreed to the attack (again for reasons of his own) and the assault of the Wose upon Sauron was made that same year. Too late. Sauron had meanwhile prepared contingency plans and when the attack came he merely withdrew from Mirkwood and re-entered Mordor long prepared for him.

And so the years drew on on to the War of the Ring. In 2953 The white council met for the last time, and once more Saruman lied to the assembled Wise, misleading most of them concerning the fate of the Ruling Ring. Yet by that time there were some among the Council who were beginning to cherish deep suspicions concerning Saruman himself- and so when the War of the Ring broke out in 3018 Third age, they were not entirely unprepared for the rapid succession of events which followed, not the least of which was the open treachery of Saruman the White, for over five hundred years the leader of the White Council and during all that time the main reason for its singular lack of success.
That concludes my info. Hope that was helpful. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
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