10 A.D. 60.
11 A.D. 49.
12 A.D. 43.
13 (no date)
14 A.D. 43.
15 A.D. 70.
In section 1, Germanic rebels besiege Castra Vetera.
In 2, Time Patrol agents, Manse Everard and Janne Floris, meet in twentieth-century Amsterdam.
In 3, while the siege continues, the prophetess, Veleda, addresses tribal chiefs, then she and her messenger, Heidhin, confer.
In 4, Everard and Floris witness the surrender of Castra Vetera to the rebels which occurred in 70 AD.
5 recounts an event in the aftermath of the surrender.
In 6, the Patrol agents return briefly to twentieth-century Amsterdam.
7 and 8 recount further events in the aftermath of the surrender. At the end of 8, Everard and Floris agree that they:
"'...must follow [Veleda's] spoor through the past, to wherever she began.'" (p. 542)
9 summarizes events during the course of the rebellion.
10 must therefore be the start of the Patrol agents' journey into the further past and we will return to it tomorrow.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
It's a mark of how astonishingly successful Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium has been that it has accrued a truly extraordinary amount of commentary since THE LORD OF THE RINGS was pub. in 1954-55. Including some by Anderson himself, such as "Awakening the Elves," the essay he contributed to MEDITATIONS ON MIDDLE-EARTH, ed. by Karen Haber (A Byron Preiss Book, 2002). It would be a bit too long to explain here in detail, but I might have suggested some criticisms to Anderson, mostly that he passed over the darker side of the Elves, as seen in THE SLMARILLION. His comments about the Elves describes them as we see them in LOTR after they had been purged by suffering and sorrow.
Just a long-winded way of saying I'm still in a Tolkienian mood and almost done rereading THE HOBBIT PARTY.
Ad astra! Sean
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