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Originally Posted by alman
The did have magic, but it came from the outside. Old Took had magical cufflinks, gifted by Gandalf. (perhaps the talking horn of buckland was a gift from Gandalf as well! maybe even in Gandalfs voice.) Bilbo had sting, and Bilbo also gave many presents on his 111st birthday that were obviously magical.
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Surely– given the extreme rarity of magical items in the Shire– the existence, and origins of, a talking horn would be worth mentioning? (We know where Sting, the cufflinks and the presents came from.) And the phrase, from memory, is "the horn–
call of Buckland," not "the
horn of Buckland"– emphasis on the sound, not the instrument. And more than one horn sounds the call, so it would have to be
multiple talking horns.
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Originally Posted by alman
Also, the horn, if magic, could only have been enchanted to alert a static message in emergencies. It need not have been intelligent and recognize specific danger, just to go off when sounded.
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See my first post– why create something magical that only does what the mundane version could do just as easily?
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Originally Posted by alman
It just seems odd, that with all the horn blowing in the books, only one has words associated with it.
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As odd as the presence of a brass band's worth of (pointlessly) magical instruments in the Shire, with nothing to show how they got there? I think not.
Besides, isn't it much cooler to imagine horn calls echoing through the night, than some guy's voice yelling?