I'm glad you brought this up, Peri, and not just so that I could see your avatar (picture thingy below your name)! <P>If you've read the Silmarillion (if you haven't, then do!), Glaurung is one of the most obvious cases of a creature talking. But I have always pictured him as not speaking with his mouth, just telepathically, the way Galadriel sometimes does in the movies (called Osanwë-Kenta by Tolkien). <P>I haven't seen Cats&Dogs, but it looks pretty crap. And I'd have to say that the way the animals talked was the worst thing about the Dr. Doolittle movies. I think the Eagles would look cool just showing body language, with their heads and eyes, and their voices just coming out of nowhere. If their lips move, I'm leaving!
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