Filch - AD and GtheG - Dragon lingo - Fudge
Caius Marcius
coriolan at worldnet.att.net
Fri Aug 17 17:43:09 UTC 2001
No: HPFGUIDX 24389
--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
>
> > In which case, I will borrow a concept from another series - David
> > Eddings Belgariad, where the sorceress Polgara speaks the
language
> of the
> > birds but realizes they really don't have much to say.
>
> Arthur discovers the same in Hitchhiker's Guide.
>
> As does the protogonist Malcolm Fisher in Tom Holt's Expecting
Someone Taller (which brings Wagner's Ring of the Niebelung
tetraloguy up-to-date). Uninteresting bird talk seems to be a
consensus of fantasy & sci-fi writers!
- CMC (veering dangerously OT)
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