Yeah, I tried to do a similar thing with Frist today, and got no reward. Then I remembered this thread afterwards
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I was on a druid when I did it, but I don't think that makes a difference with some of these other Kunark spell quests. I also couldn't get him to respond to the [duplicate scrolls] key words, although that might be unrelated.