The silver trumpet CHAPTER III
When Aedanar and Galenor died, they left their project of the temple as a legacy to their four children, each of whom had sworn to fulfill the work their parents started; so it happened with the grandchildren, for many generations. To keep the word of their oath, only the descendants of Theoson and Uhilyn could work at the construction, without any help from outside, nor from foreign workers or master builders. It seemed as though nobody, in Lothriel, did anything except building the temple to Ghaladar, or decorating it, or devising tools or mechanical means to ease the work. No other relevant building was started, whether a habitation, a palace, a farm, or a market: only a few dozens of great tents and wooden huts, essential and functional, bereft of any
