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Originally Posted by skip spence
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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.
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Still, interesting topic.I quite like that idea, especially since I'm not too fond of the talking objects from a... ahem, canonical point of view, though the purse is fun if you see Bilbo as a stand-alone fairytale. |
On the whole I tend to agree with
Puddleglum that the purse and the sword
are probably meant to be actually speaking. But still, the "translator conceit" does give the reader a fair bit of leeway there.