Tenar

And I guess, you know, in one of the afterwards, Ursula K.

Le Guin herself considered the scene in the Tombs of Adon where Tenar, Taron puts to death the three prisoners is the most wrenching, awful scene in these novels.

I found the dragons having gone mad and that disemboweled dragon dying on the beach and so forth.

I found that to be...

And the fact that...

Tenar goes on and we see her again, what, 16, 20 years later, I think.

And her life has changed and we're allowed to change.

And I feel like that's one of my favorite parts.

in a lot of it, a lot of it.

Uh, her, her na- her original name is Tenar, uh, but she becomes the high priestess of the tomb, Tombs of Atuan.

And they have this idea that all the high priestesses are really one high priestess who are reincarnated, and that original person is called Arha.

Yes.

Boy, what a metaphor that is.

There's a lot of metaphors in this book I'm sure we're gonna be talking about.

And, and, and really then s- symbolically beheaded to show that her life as Tenar is gone, and now she is only a- Arha.

Um-