According to J. R. R. Tolkien, one of the main wishes of the human heart is to be able to converse with other living things: “On this desire, as ancient as the Fall, is largely founded the talking of beasts and creatures in fairy tales, and especially the magical understanding of their proper speech.” Indeed, already in the earliest known stories we can see the communication between humans and non-humans, be it spirits, animals, natural phenomena, or other embodied beings…
