"There are rooms underneath the Hall, underneath the whole Place, under where we stand now. There's a great maze of tunnels, a Labyrinth. It's like a great dark city, under the hill. Full of gold, and the swords of old heroes, and old crowns, and bones, and years, and silence."
She spoke as if in trance, in rapture. Manan watched her. His slabby face never expressed much but stolid, careful sadness; it was sadder than usual now.
"Well, and you're mistress of all that," he said. "The silence, and the dark."
"I am."
Was rereading tombs in advance of the shelved by genre episode and remembered how much I love this book and how hard the relationship between them hits, so here, have some fanart
tfw freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake, it is not easy. it is not a gift given but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one
okay wait i need a more thoughtful compilation of the earthsea passages i have saved
1. alwayyys tenar once i meant to kill him now ill make him live if i can which of us saved the other from the labyrinth. always. the farthest shore walked as a heroes journey adventure so that 20 yrs later tehanu could run in the aftermath of the heroes journey from the perspective of the women who had until now been excluded. and her boldness reminds me of when she was arha
2. tehanus that will be my gift back to the world that gave me the life i did live the love i loved and the breath i breathed. dear dragon girl
3. these two go together. tenars almost immediate love for lebannen like she sees immediately why ged cared abt him she loves him for the same reasons. my son my king my dear boy.
4. ged finds a girl in a cave and she locks him up but they wind up escaping together and in her nervousness about an outside world she was secluded from all her life she says she just wants to live in the mountains and he genuinely is like yes itll be hard but if thats what u want we’ll do it. okay tbh hes probably already in that existential crisis we see in farthest shore and tehanu
5. this is like the companion to the tenar-with-lebannen passages because now its ged-with-therru (step-parents w the kids the other person adopted LOL) so many of my saved passages r feelings over little therru
bonus um. the i do know you. i do know you. its like this + the whole section after but vetch is so important TO ME. also that fanart of this scene i rbed a while ago. real
A man who, knowing his whole true self, cannot be used or possessed by any power other than himself, and whose life therefore is lived for life's sake and never in the service of ruin, or pain, or hatred, or the dark.
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Here's a time lapse of the tombs of atuan drawing. I don't normally post these but I think this one is interesting? I like that you can see me fussing over Ged's nose lol