[dancing spawn of ungoliant]

Originally Posted by davem

I also wonder if this 'magical' regeneration contributed to the Shire's 'withdrawal' from the world & its 'fading' into the world of legend & fairytale. Magical healing may be a convenient 'shortcut', but are there implications to it?

That's an interesting idea, I've never thought of it like that, but now that you said it, it sounds rather logical to me. When the One Ring was destroyed and Galadriel and Nenya left Middle-earth, Lothlorien started fading. Now, if the dust that Galadriel gave to Sam had got its powers from Nenya, sure the things that had been made with the help of the dust started fading as well?