Thus the historian imbibed naturally the spirit of the taleteller.

A player, a singer, a taleteller-

He surveys the past, sometimes as a scholar, sometimes as a taleteller, sometimes even as a poet, but never as a statesman.

But the taletellers sung of men in ancient times that had strange powers and forms.

But the taletellers had sung of it many times.

There would be rewards, and glory, and the taletellers would sing his name for generations.

He's penetrated the Oldest Tunnels, where the taletellers said the People had come from a million years ago.

Fire was hot, the taletellers said.

The old glories of which the taletellers sing would return, and once again the People would build great halls and mighty tunnels.

"I think I remember to have heard their names in connection with your profession of taleteller."

But still, when he had touched the fire that hung upon the wall, it had not been like the fire of which the taletellers sing.

"You have sat at the feet of an excellent taleteller, sir, or else you have a prodigious imagination of your own."