ged giving vetch and tenar his true name and then peacing out for years bc he missed “how to boyfriend class” on roke when he was busy experiencing evil visions
Sometimes a family is an ex-cult member turned farmer, a goatherder who used to be one of the powerful mages in the world, and their adopted dragon daughter.
a rough painting of Ged and Tenar because ahhh i'm feeling nostalgic!! the earthsea trilogy is still the only "high fantasy" series i actually love, and holy shit if you haven't read it GO READ IT because it's so good! i don't even like fantasy and it's SO GOOD
[ID: fanart of ged and tenar from the earthsea cycle. ged has brown skin, chin length hair, and a scar on his face. tenar is pale with grey-blue eyes and brown-black hair. end ID]
Wow I really loved The Other Wind. I’m so glad that I chose to finish the Earthsea series. (I almost gave up after Tales from Earthsea.)
The Other Wind added so many layers to the previous stories I’m still in awe of Le Guin’s ability to do that.
My personal favorites in the series are The Tombs of Atuan, Tehanu, and The Other Wind. I also cannot appreciate her enough for giving me a female character like Tenar who had this well-developed character journey through life. Every stage of her life all contributed to this character. I thanked Le Guin for writing women growing old but was still always just herself, never reduced to a tool, an obstacle to younger new main characters, or stereotypically “useless” or just some greater man’s wife.