Thread:LordTBT/@comment-3107097-20150813214952

I believe you have it the wrong way around. There are things that suggests Umfry narrates Loamhedge and Brocktree, namely: They are narrated by the Teller of Tales and he is the Teller of Tales. But tell me this: what suggests that he DOESN'T narrate the other books? Keep in mind that every non-unique title (Foremole, Log-a-Log, Skipper, High Rhulain, Taggerung, Tabura etc.) is explicitly described as such in the earliest book possible, whereas "Teller of Tales" has appeared 3 times and never been described as non-unique. I might as well claim that "Joseph Bell" is a non-unique title that was introduced in Mariel of Redwall but has since been passed on to half a dozen other bells which means the bell that crushed Cluny was a completely different bell from the original Joseph Bell but it had the same name. Clearly, it's possible that the prologues of Lord Brocktree and Loamhedge were at some point spoken by Umfry, an Abbey Recorder and self-proclaimed storyteller, just as it is possible for the original Joseph Bell to have hung there until the events of Redwall; and conjuring up alternate explanations using different entities with identical names is utterly pointless, especially with Jacques's history of denoting non-unique titles. 