Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Dragon talk

Dragons do talk in other folktales, but usually only a few sentences. Smaug however is fluent in Common speech and talks like a British upper class twit.

So, KRu asks: Does Smaug speak Common tongue or does the ring allow Bilbo to understand dragon speech? essay at link.


Left out of the movie: The thrush understand Bilbo, and Bard because of his ancestry, is able to understand the Thrush's language...

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