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Title: The Oak and the Ram
Series: Eternal Champion: Corum #5
Author: Michael Moorcock
Rating: 4 of 5 Stars
Genre: Fantasy
Pages: 118
Words: 42K
Corum ends up helping to kill another of the Cold Gods, those beings stranded on his world from the Void.
This was much less mopey than the previous volume. Corum needs stimulation in his life to keep from settling into despair and running around trying to save the humans does the trick. In many ways, it seems humanity has given up. They don’t even try to survive. If it weren’t for Corum and his drive to fight, to overcome, to conquer the adverse circumstances before him, I don’t see what chance the world itself had. Thankfully, Corum is there and he does fight and he gives humanity a little breathing room.
I enjoyed this but at the same time I could feel that this is probably the last time I will be re-reading this particular book by Moorcock and once I finish the next and final Corum book, I will be done with the Eternal Champion mythos altogether. I am at a point in my life where reading about other peoples’ misery does not engender a feeling of “thank goodness I don’t have to experience that!” but instead it is like an ache of commiseration. Pain and anguish are too real to be enjoyed vicariously. Especially by someone of my temperament.
★★★★☆
From the publisher
The seasons have turned from spring to summer across the quiet earth – yet the Fhoi Myore were hiding in mist, awaiting their chance to unleash their icy realm of death. To defeat the Cold Gods, Corum of the Silver Hand must restore the High King’s power with legendary treasures – the Golden Oak and the Silver Ram – lost talismans that wield miraculous forces unknown to Corum…
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