A quote from Tales from Earthsea (2024)

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Everything that exists has its true name. The power of magic is nothing more than the power to command based on the knowledge of a thing's true name. But use that power irresponsibly, and the balance of the world is easily damaged.

He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but to finish what he had begun. But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.

What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives. Past events exist, after all, only in memory, which is a form of imagination. The event is real now, but once it's then, its continuing reality is entirely up to us, dependent on our energy and honesty.

Tales From Earthsea mainly explores how human arrogance leads to larger consequences in the world, including global warming and environmental devastation. But the movie's real strengths are in the ways it speaks to the hellish void of anxiety that lives in all of us in some way, and the things we do to escape it.

For we have only what we know we must lose, what we are willing to lose… That selfhood which is our torment, and our treasure, and our humanity, does not endure. It changes it is gone, a wave on the sea. Would you have the sea grow still and the tides cease, to save one wave, to save yourself?”

First sentence: The Island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards.

Throughout A Wizard of Earthsea, true names symbolize the intense power of being seen, known, and accepted as one truly is—a concept that relates profoundly back to several of the novel's major themes, including coming of age, identity and the shadow self, and cosmic balance.

Men must learn to do what leaf and whale and wind do naturally. It is for us to keep the balance. Everything that exists has its true name. The power of magic is nothing more than the power to command based on the knowledge of a thing's true name.

Quote by Katharine Hepburn: “Life is hard. After all, it kills you.”

Wizard of Earthsea conveys the notion that there is much to learn from the Other; wisdom can come from a wide array of unexpected sources, including the natural world. We must be open-minded enough to learn from them in order to fully understand ourselves.

Why did Therru turn into a dragon? ›

The withering Dark Lord uses the last of his magic to strangle Therru to death. Instead of dying, she reveals her true form as a dragon, possessing everlasting life.

Tenar - Tenar is like her mother and cares for her as if she is her own. She rescued Therru from the streets after her birth parents had abused her such as burn the left side of her face thus leaving a large burn mark (scar) on her face.

Dying is like the ocean, sometimes the tide comes in gently with soft, delicate waves quietly working in the background. Other days, the waves violently crash into explosions, demanding to be noticed but regardless of how it chooses to do its job, the tide will always come in.

“All humans are aware of death. So we're all a little bit sad all the time. That's just the deal . . . but we don't get offered any other ones.

“What you look for, you'll find. When you decide you can't find something, you'll also discover you won't find it.”

Ged /ˈɡɛd/ is the true name of a fictional character in Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea realm. He is introduced in A Wizard of Earthsea, and plays both main and supporting roles in the subsequent Earthsea novels. In most of the Earthsea books he goes by the Hardic name Sparrowhawk; as a child he is known as Duny.

The Kargs speak Kargish, and on the island of Osskil, the inhabitants also speak Osskili. Dragons talk in True Speech, also called Old Speech, the original language of magic. Earthsea, with the exception of the Kargad lands, is a literate society using a writing system called the "Hardic runes".

"The Rules of Names" is the second Earthsea short story, first published in Fantastic in 1964. It introduces the dragon Yevaud, who later becomes an opponent of the young wizard Ged in A Wizard of Earthsea.