Sorcery

[Raynor]

Originally Posted by Boromir88

The problem is you seem to be disregarding the word 'learned':

I am not disregarding it; the quote from the letters forbids "pure" humans from coming by to magic by lore or spells, given that they don't have it inherently - but the mouthie doesn't fall into that cathegory. I doubt that, for humans, there is any one "high" skill that we are born with which is a priori developed apropriately, without need of learning - a "mundane" example is talking. So, my argument goes along the lines that the mouthie was having the required raw materials to work on in order to master magic, while "pure" humans don't - but that still required learning, apprenticeship if you will. I would also reffer to the istari: they too have magic abilities, being maiar; but since they are incarnate, they too have to learn (or re-learn, in their case) a lot.