Tongues are a miraculous manifestation of being filled with the Holy Ghost.

As for the extraordinary operations of the Holy Ghost, such as working of miracles, or speaking with divers kinds of tongues, they are long since ceased.

Your first reaction to any attack should be joy in the Holy ghost

So I sang out the barbarous words - karaoke from Hell.

You can two-time satan
But you can't lick the Holy Ghost.

And not only of even mainly because of the protection it had given him - it was thanks to his own strength, after all, that he had stood up to all the hardships and terrors and the loneliness of his Quest - but as long as he had carried the emblem, he had never been at a loss for what to do. Like a mysterious compass, it had guided his thoughts in the right direction. And now that was changed, now he had no secret power to lead him. He had no idea what to do, but he couldn't bear to stand there as though paralyzed.