![]() ![]() ![]() But his introduction to the reader through Roland’s knowledge of folklore lends Shardik a supernatural depth, and through him, the world the bear exists in seems even larger and more terrifyingly mystical. The bear as he exists in the book - sick, enraged, monstrous - is terrifying enough. They called him Mir, which to these people meant “the world beneath the world.” He stood seventy feet high, and after eighteen or more centuries of undisputed rule in the West Woods, he was dying. … He was, of course, a demon incarnate - or the shadow of a god. Once, the Old People had lived in the West Woods (it was their leavings which Roland had found from time to time during the last weeks), and they had gone in fear of the colossal, undying bear. Early on The Waste Lands (the third book in The Dark Tower series by Stephen King), protagonists Roland, Eddie, and Susannah encounter Shardik, a gigantic bear who is at first portrayed as a kind of ancient wilderness deity: ![]()
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