I'm level 43 and I've gotten plenty of shouts off of other walls. For some reason when I went to the forsaken cave for the white phial I got to the word wall and the animation never took place. I do hear the noise associated with the animation. Any one else see this bug?

Yeah had this myself with the word wall in the maze. Imo its just an audio bug in this case, as you and I almost certainly already have the particular shout from these walls. The chanting sound is still played making it seem like its a wall with a word to collect when we have already maxed that shout.

This is has happened to me twice now on two different saves. The wall does not light up, but there is still chanting and you DO NOT get the new shout. The first time it happened to me was at Forsaken Cave. The other time it happened at Saarthal. For both instances it would have been the third word for that particular shout.

Forsaken cave is the only one for me so far.

Same thing happen to me.

Does the 1.3 patch fix this?

I've had it happen, but can't remember the name of the place. (It was on a mountain and just left of a tall statue.) I must have went to the wall a dozen times and learned 4 other shouts before visiting the glitched wall one last time, and it FINALLY working.

Hag's End, Slow Time second word. Haven't tried any more walls yet

If it helps. I wonder if the bug started earlier. When i recieved the word just before the bug (i got the word while in the middle of a dragon battle) I noticed that the rustling leaves sound was still playing afterward.

I have already received the 2nd "Slow Time" word on a previous wall.
now, i can not get Greybeard Arngeir to mark another word on my map.
I am level 40 ... MANY HOUR LOGGED ALREADY!!!
Please help...

This only happened to me a once while attempting to get the copy of Fragment:On Artaeum (I have had the book in my inventory since the very beginning of the game mind you)

...anyway

The quest marker led me back through bleak falls barrow, a tomb which I'm sure almost all of you, like me, cleared at the very beginning of the game.

When I got to the chest at the end, the book was not there... and the word wall was making noises as if I had never gotten the shout from there.


Also... a few times when I'd enter the Dark Brotherhood sanctuary.... the word wall that gave me the final word for Marked for death would still be lit up..... no noise or anything.... and then it would just gradually fade away.
(the word was in a different spot than where I observed it the first time on the wall) I'm wondering if you can learn all three words from that same wall.... and I had already gotten the other two from somewhere else so the game started tarding out....

Think this might be Hag End specific. I'm having exactly the same problem. The music plays, but the Word doesn't show up. Likely a scripting issue...I hope.