Rachel Port
Well-Known Member
I found all the schemes for population growth in the earliest elf generations a bit disconcerting. It felt rather mechanical, as if for years the elves were reproducing in sync - I kept thinking of the scene in A Wrinkle In Time when the children in all the front yards are bouncing balls simultaneously. You know, all those couples having sex at the same time so all their children will be conceived together and born in the spring of a certain year. Maybe it was just reading so many possible schemes one after the other.