Agyllian
Maybe she will come across more people that may have kept alive knowledge of modern technology
theswedishcat
In the most recent interview with Isobelle Carmody, located in the new section of this site, She (Carmody) states that we haven't guessed the identity of the destroyer. I suggest Garth... has Loius Larkin been suggested? He won't let Elspeth into his mind....
Q: Is Dameon in love with Elspeth? (That's a question we get all the time! We have big arguments about that!)The interview was from 2002, so it was before The Sending was split into two books, but I daresay that Isobelle's point still applies. ;) The interview is here.
A: Yes.. he is.. Yes, he's been in love with her always.. and I guess you discover it pretty decisively in the next book, well in the last book everything's discovered, basically.
Oh, a train - that makes more sense - I was thinking of a mine cart! ::) It's clearly an inferior type of train, though, given they couldn't even hear for a while after being in it. And it seemed very rough as well. Still, you're right that there could be other technology as well - I wonder what else they might have in TLotRQ...er technology - we know that there is some sort of train in LOTRQ - Elspeth sees it in Dragon's mind in TKP - so there might be some other stuff too...
nef