Possible Clues:

• Rant and roar about storyteller
• Ishmael, in "Moby-Dick"
• Character recounting the events within a story
• Raconteur's explosive rant and roar
• Some tommyrot, arrant, holding up storyteller
• Scottish island to the west with rocky hill — one offers an account
• Scottish island returned to king whose role is telling
• Character who describes the events of a novel
• Ishmael, in 'Moby Dick'
• One voicing a documentary