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Originally Posted by Eomer of the Rohirrim
I do not take other talking objects - the troll's purse, Turin's sword - at face value, thinking of them as storytellers' decoration, and it is, in any case, implied to a far smaller degree that the horn talked.
Still, interesting topic.
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The sword and the purse I'm willing to concede
might have actually"talked" (though you can also interpret it as more of a metaphorical/poetic license thing).
This isn't even "decoration". I mean, it isn't implied at all that the horn(s) literally spoke. It's just a horn call that means "Fear, fire, foes, awake, awake!"