Aryut's daughter, made pregnant by the invaders, dies with her baby in childbirth. When this has happened:
"Afar, a mammoth trumpeted. The wind loudened. This was going to be a cold summer." (p. 193)
The wind, commenting as ever, is this time accompanied by a trumpeting mammoth and by a cold summer. This summer will be "cold" for the Tulat because they will continue to be oppressed by the Cloud People. Something else will happen but that is the situation right now...
Breakfast post. Second coffee. I can just about guarantee to reread a short passage of a Poul Anderson text and find a phrase to post about. The wind continually comments on the action.
Getting ready to go out.
Laterz.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
About all I can say here is that, as a Tolkien fan, repeated mentions of these woolly mammoths reminds me of the giant elephant-like creatures called mumak/mumakil in THE LORD OF THE RINGS. Esp. the one seen by Sam Gamgee after Faramir and his Rangers ambushed that regiment of Haradrim marching to Mordor.
Ad astra! Sean
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