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Originally Posted by Polydamas
The Hobbit has more of a typical real-world attitude that anyone clever (the dwarves) can learn a few simple spells. And doesn't Galadriel tell the hobbits that they could learn to make elvish rope?
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The Lord of the Rings is a problematic example. There's some kinds of "magic" are learnable exotic skills, while there's also a kind of spiritual power that is a function of how many generations separate you from the creation of the world or how long long you have been absent from Eru's presence. But it is true for example that Aragorn has healing powers that he gets from the elven ancestry that makes him a rightful monarch of Gondor. My list is much more straightforward in their "magic is apparently genetic" orientation