The Gift of Speech - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

**The Saucepan Man** · 12-09-2004, 08:24 AM

Welcome to the Downs, Turin and A_Brandybuck

I hope that you enjoy yourselves here.

My goodness, there seems to me to be a good deal of scepticism concerning the talkative nature of Turin's sword. Now, I am a very sceptical person when it comes to unexplained phenomena in real life, but (absent the ludicrous) I am quite happy to suspend that scepticism when I read a fantasy novel which contains elements of faerie, mythology and legend.

Can anyone offer a plausible explanation as to why Gurthang could not, or should not, have talked?

12-09-2004, 08:24 AM	#25
The Saucepan Man Corpus Cacophonous Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: A green and pleasant land Posts: 8,390	Welcome to the Downs, Turin and A_Brandybuck I hope that you enjoy yourselves here. My goodness, there seems to me to be a good deal of scepticism concerning the talkative nature of Turin's sword. Now, I am a very sceptical person when it comes to unexplained phenomena in real life, but (absent the ludicrous) I am quite happy to suspend that scepticism when I read a fantasy novel which contains elements of faerie, mythology and legend. Can anyone offer a plausible explanation as to why Gurthang could not, or should not, have talked? __________________ Do you mind? I'm busy doing the fishstick. It's a very delicate state of mind!