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“Kalessin!” she cried, and then turned, seizing Ged’s arm, pulling him down to the rock, as the roar of fire went over them, the rattle of mail and the hiss of wind in upraised wings, the clash of the talons like scytheblades on the rock.
“Tehanu,” the dragon said.
She gets her True Name from a being of power - a dragon. And she is a dragonlord, as "one who dragons will talk to."
I did not know what else to do, Segoy.” She still looked at the dragon, and she spoke in the language of the dragons, the words of the Making.
Segoy was the first mage, who raised the islands from the sea, and thus is Kalessin
“Shall we go there now?” the child asked. “Where the others are, on the other wind?”
“I give you my child, as you will give me yours.”
Where it had been lay scorched rags of cloth and leather, and other things.
Even the carefully worded image of gore is evocative
We left the books, Ogion’s books! On the mantel at Oak Farm—for Spark, poor boy, he can’t read a word of them!
She thought of the small window that looked west. “I think we can live there,” she said.
AFTERWORD
from the point of view of the people who are not included. The ones who can’t do magic. The ones who don’t have shining staffs or swords. Women, kids, the poor, the old, the powerless. Unheroes, ordinary people—my people.
“What cannot be mended must be transcended.” Maybe the change coming into Earthsea has something to do with no longer identifying freedom with power, with separating being free from being in control.
Aspen, the wizard of Re Albi, is detestable in a way even Cob is not, because Aspen flaunts all the behaviors that cause such anger—fear
Living the mystery of daily life, she longs for the clear light of thought. Tenar has a fine, strong mind. The two people best able to see and respect that in her were Ged and Ogion. Ogion is gone; Ged has come back to her.
he has to find out what he gave up to become a man of power. Which might be defined as everything but that power. Or which might be seen as a different kind of learning. The kind of learning ordinary people get from talking in the kitchen on winter evenings . . . Or is it beyond learning—is it the kind of magic that men lost, but the dragons kept?
