A Wizard of Earthsea

by

Ursula K. Le Guin

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Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk Character Analysis

Ged, whose childhood name is Duny and whose public name, or “use-name,” is Sparrowhawk, is the protagonist of A Wizard of Earthsea. Le Guin refers to Ged primarily by his true name—which, in the Earthsea universe, is often unknown to all except a few close friends and possesses spell-like qualities. She does this in order to establish an intimacy and camaraderie with the reader as she relays Ged’s coming-of-age story, which follows him from the time he is a boy of 12 until he is a man of 18 and a wizard in his own right. At the start of the novel, Ged is known as Duny and lives in a poor village on the isle of Gont. He is powerful yet untrained when it comes to sorcery. His skills draw the attention of a local mage, Ogion, who takes the young Duny on as prentice and gives him his true name: Ged. Ged quickly grows frustrated with Ogion’s sage, slow silence, and, in order to more quickly amass power and knowledge travels at the age of 14 to the Isle of Roke, where he attends the School for wizards there. At the School, Ged’s thirst for power is put to the test—and he fails himself, his classmates, and his instructors when, in an illegal duel with another prentice, he calls forth a terrible shadow being that nearly kills him. Ged’s life, which was so full of purpose and potential, suddenly becomes a lengthy, drawn-out showdown against the shadow that hunts him. As Ged finishes his training, enters the world, and begins having adventures, he is constantly reminded of the careful equilibrium of the universe—and what happened when he dared to disturb it. He soon realizes that running from the shadow, which pursues him constantly, is not the answer—he begins to understand that he must face it and understand it if he wants to conquer it. As Ged grows from a boy into a man, he learns important lessons about duty, destiny, balance, pride, and how to live a full life as a whole, integrated self rather than scraping by while ignoring the dark, painful parts of oneself.

Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk Quotes in A Wizard of Earthsea

The A Wizard of Earthsea quotes below are all either spoken by Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk or refer to Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Coming of Age Theme Icon
).
Chapter 1 Quotes

Many a Gontishman has gone forth to serve the Lords of the Archipelago in their cities as wizard or mage, or, looking for adventure, to wander working magic from isle to isle of all Earthsea. Of these some say the greatest, and surely the greatest voyager, was the man called Sparrowhawk, who in his day became both dragonlord and Archmage. His life is told of in the Deed of Ged and in many songs, but this is a tale of the time before his fame, before the songs were made.

Related Characters: Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk
Page Number: 1
Explanation and Analysis:

He crossed to the far bank, shuddering with cold but walking slow and erect as he should through that icy, living water. As he came to the bank Ogion, waiting, reached out his hand and clasping the boy's arm whispered to him his true name: Ged.

Related Characters: Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk, Ogion
Related Symbols: True Names
Page Number: 17
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 2 Quotes

"You want to work spells," Ogion said presently, striding along. […] Wait. Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine times patience. What is that herb by the path?"

[…]

"I don't know."

"Fourfoil, they call it." Ogion had halted, the coppershod foot of his staff near the little weed, so Ged looked closely at the plant, and plucked a dry seedpod from it, and finally asked, since Ogion said nothing more, "What is its use, Master?"

"None I know of."

Related Characters: Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk (speaker), Ogion (speaker)
Page Number: 19
Explanation and Analysis:

“Ged, listen to me now. Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light? This sorcery is not a game we play for pleasure or for praise. Think of this: that every word, every act of our Art is said and is done either for good, or for evil. Before you speak or do you must know the price that is to pay!”

Related Characters: Ogion (speaker), Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk
Page Number: 27
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 3 Quotes

“To change this rock into a jewel, you must change its true name. And to do that, my son, even to so small a scrap of the world, is to change the world. […] You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium. A wizard’s power of Changing and of Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power. […] It must follow knowledge, and serve need. To light a candle is to cast a shadow…”

Related Characters: The Master Hand (speaker), Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk
Related Symbols: True Names
Page Number: 51
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 4 Quotes

Only for a moment did the spirit glimmer there. Then the sallow oval between Ged’s arms grew bright. It widened and spread, a rent in the darkness of the earth and night, a ripping open of the fabric of the world. Through it blazed a terrible brightness. And through that bright misshapen breach clambered something like a clot of black shadow, quick and hideous, and it leaped straight out at Ged's face.

Related Characters: Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk, The Shadow, Jasper
Page Number: 72
Explanation and Analysis:

"Lord Gensher, I do not know what it was—the thing that came out of the spell and cleaved to me—"

"Nor do I know. It has no name. You have great power inborn in you, and you used that power wrongly, to work a spell over which you had no control, not knowing how that spell affects the balance of light and dark, life and death, good and evil. And you were moved to do this by pride and by hate. Is it any wonder the result was ruin?”

Related Characters: Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk (speaker), Archmage Gensher (speaker), The Shadow
Related Symbols: True Names
Page Number: 78
Explanation and Analysis:

No one knows a man's true name but himself and his namer. […] If plain men hide their true name from all but a few they love and trust utterly, so much more must wizardly men, being more dangerous, and more endangered. Who knows a man’s name, holds that man's life in his keeping. Thus to Ged, who had lost faith in himself, Vetch had given that gift only a friend can give, the proof of unshaken, unshakable trust.

Related Characters: Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk, Vetch / Estarriol
Related Symbols: True Names
Page Number: 82
Explanation and Analysis:

"You thought, as a boy, that a mage is one who can do anything. So I thought, once. So did we all. And the truth is that as a man’s real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he must do..."

Related Characters: The Master Summoner (speaker), Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk
Page Number: 85
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 5 Quotes

"There is no comfort in this place," the Archmage had said to Ged on the day he made him wizard, "no fame, no wealth, maybe no risk. Will you go?"

"I will go," Ged had replied; not from obedience only. Since the night on Roke Knoll his desire had turned as much against fame and display as once it had been set on them. Always now he doubted his strength and dreaded the trial of his power. Yet also the talk of dragons drew him with a great curiosity.

Related Characters: Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk (speaker), Archmage Gensher (speaker)
Page Number: 91
Explanation and Analysis:

Either he must go down the hill into the desert lands and lightless cities of the dead, or he must step across the wall back into life, where the formless evil thing waited for him.

Related Characters: Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk, The Shadow
Page Number: 96
Explanation and Analysis:

"If you could name it you could master it, maybe, little wizard. Maybe I could tell you its name, when I see it close by. And it will come close, if you wait about my isle. It will come wherever you come. If you do not want it to come close you must run, and run, and keep running from it. And yet it will follow you. Would you like to know its name?"

Related Characters: Yevaud, the Dragon of Pendor (speaker), Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk, The Shadow
Page Number: 106
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 6 Quotes

"Leave me at Serd and sail where you like. It's not against your ship this wind blows, but against me."

"Against you, a wizard of Roke?"

"Have you never heard of the Roke-wind, master?"

“Aye, that keeps off evil powers from the Isle of the Wise, but what has that to do with you, a Dragontamer?"

"That is between me and my shadow," Ged answered shortly, as a wizard will; and he said no more as they went swiftly, with a steady wind and under clearing skies, back over the sea to Serd.

Related Characters: Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk (speaker), The Shadow
Page Number: 114
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 7 Quotes

“It will speak of things that were, and are, and will be. It told of your coming, long before you came to this land. Will you ask a question of it now?"

“No."

"It will answer you."

"There is no question I would ask it."

"It might tell you," Serret said in her soft voice, "how you will defeat your enemy."

Ged stood mute.

"Do you fear the stone?" she asked as if unbelieving; and he answered, "Yes."

Related Characters: Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk (speaker), Village Girl / Serret (speaker), The Shadow
Page Number: 136
Explanation and Analysis:

“But I know this: the Old Powers of earth are not for men to use. They were never given into our hands, and in our hands they work only ruin. Ill means, ill end. I was not drawn here, but driven here, and the force that drove me works to my undoing. I cannot help you."

Related Characters: Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk (speaker), Village Girl / Serret
Page Number: 139
Explanation and Analysis:

"I have no strength against the thing," Ged answered.

Ogion shook his head… […] "Strange," he said: "You had strength enough to outspell a sorcerer in his own domain, there in Osskil. You had strength enough to withstand the lures and fend off the attack of the servants of an Old Power of Earth. And at Pendor you had strength enough to stand up to a dragon."

"It was luck I had in Osskil, not strength," Ged replied, and he shivered again as he thought of the dreamlike deathly cold of the Court of the Terrenon. “As for the dragon, I knew his name. The evil thing, the shadow that hunts me, has no name."

“All things have a name," said Ogion.

Related Characters: Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk (speaker), Ogion (speaker), The Shadow, Yevaud, the Dragon of Pendor, Benderesk
Related Symbols: True Names
Page Number: 150
Explanation and Analysis:

"You must turn around."

"Turn around?"

"If you go ahead, if you keep running, wherever you run you will meet danger and evil, for it drives you, it chooses the way you go. You must choose. You must seek what seeks you. You must hunt the hunter."

Related Characters: Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk (speaker), Ogion (speaker), The Shadow
Page Number: 151
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 8 Quotes

There was a great wish in him to stay here on Gont, and forgoing all wizardry and venture, forgetting all power and horror, to live in peace like any man on the known, dear ground of his home land. That was his wish; but his will was other.

Related Characters: Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk
Page Number: 155
Explanation and Analysis:

The shadow had tricked him out onto the moors in Osskil, and tricked him in the mist onto the rocks, and now would there be a third trick? Had he driven the thing here, or had it drawn him here, into a trap? He did not know. He knew only the torment of dread, and the certainty that he must go ahead and do what he had set out to do: hunt down the evil, follow his terror to its source.

Related Characters: Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk, The Shadow
Page Number: 173
Explanation and Analysis:

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.

Related Characters: Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk, The Shadow
Page Number: 175
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 9 Quotes

"Pride was ever your mind's master," his friend said smiling, as if they talked of a matter of small concern to either. "Now think: it is your quest, assuredly, but if the quest fails, should there not be another there who might bear warning to the Archipelago? For the shadow would be a fearful power then. And if you defeat the thing, should there not be another there who will tell of it in the Archipelago, that the Deed may be known and sung? I know I can be of no use to you; yet I think I should go with you."

Related Characters: Vetch / Estarriol (speaker), Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk, The Shadow
Page Number: 185-186
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 10 Quotes

On the course on which they were embarked, the saying of the least spell might change chance and move the balance of power and of doom: for they went now toward the very center of that balance, toward the place where light and darkness meet. Those who travel thus say no word carelessly.

Related Characters: Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk, Vetch / Estarriol
Page Number: 196-197
Explanation and Analysis:

Aloud and clearly, breaking that old silence, Ged spoke the shadow's name and in the same moment the shadow spoke without lips or tongue, saying the same word: "Ged." And the two voices were one voice.

Ged reached out his hands, dropping his staff and took hold of his shadow, of the black self that reached out to him. Light and darkness met, and joined, and were one.

Related Characters: Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk (speaker), The Shadow
Page Number: 212
Explanation and Analysis:

“The wound is healed,” [Ged] said, “I am whole, I am free.” […]

And [Vetch] began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself whole: 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.

Related Characters: Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk (speaker), The Shadow, Vetch / Estarriol
Page Number: 214
Explanation and Analysis:

In the Deed of Ged nothing is told of that voyage nor of Ged's meeting with the shadow, before ever he sailed the Dragons' Run unscathed, or brought back the Ring of Erreth-Akbe from the Tombs of Atuan to Havnor, or came at last to Roke once more, as Archmage of all the islands of the world.

Related Characters: Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk, The Shadow
Page Number: 217
Explanation and Analysis:
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Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk Quotes in A Wizard of Earthsea

The A Wizard of Earthsea quotes below are all either spoken by Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk or refer to Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Coming of Age Theme Icon
).
Chapter 1 Quotes

Many a Gontishman has gone forth to serve the Lords of the Archipelago in their cities as wizard or mage, or, looking for adventure, to wander working magic from isle to isle of all Earthsea. Of these some say the greatest, and surely the greatest voyager, was the man called Sparrowhawk, who in his day became both dragonlord and Archmage. His life is told of in the Deed of Ged and in many songs, but this is a tale of the time before his fame, before the songs were made.

Related Characters: Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk
Page Number: 1
Explanation and Analysis:

He crossed to the far bank, shuddering with cold but walking slow and erect as he should through that icy, living water. As he came to the bank Ogion, waiting, reached out his hand and clasping the boy's arm whispered to him his true name: Ged.

Related Characters: Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk, Ogion
Related Symbols: True Names
Page Number: 17
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 2 Quotes

"You want to work spells," Ogion said presently, striding along. […] Wait. Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine times patience. What is that herb by the path?"

[…]

"I don't know."

"Fourfoil, they call it." Ogion had halted, the coppershod foot of his staff near the little weed, so Ged looked closely at the plant, and plucked a dry seedpod from it, and finally asked, since Ogion said nothing more, "What is its use, Master?"

"None I know of."

Related Characters: Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk (speaker), Ogion (speaker)
Page Number: 19
Explanation and Analysis:

“Ged, listen to me now. Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light? This sorcery is not a game we play for pleasure or for praise. Think of this: that every word, every act of our Art is said and is done either for good, or for evil. Before you speak or do you must know the price that is to pay!”

Related Characters: Ogion (speaker), Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk
Page Number: 27
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 3 Quotes

“To change this rock into a jewel, you must change its true name. And to do that, my son, even to so small a scrap of the world, is to change the world. […] You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium. A wizard’s power of Changing and of Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power. […] It must follow knowledge, and serve need. To light a candle is to cast a shadow…”

Related Characters: The Master Hand (speaker), Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk
Related Symbols: True Names
Page Number: 51
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 4 Quotes

Only for a moment did the spirit glimmer there. Then the sallow oval between Ged’s arms grew bright. It widened and spread, a rent in the darkness of the earth and night, a ripping open of the fabric of the world. Through it blazed a terrible brightness. And through that bright misshapen breach clambered something like a clot of black shadow, quick and hideous, and it leaped straight out at Ged's face.

Related Characters: Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk, The Shadow, Jasper
Page Number: 72
Explanation and Analysis:

"Lord Gensher, I do not know what it was—the thing that came out of the spell and cleaved to me—"

"Nor do I know. It has no name. You have great power inborn in you, and you used that power wrongly, to work a spell over which you had no control, not knowing how that spell affects the balance of light and dark, life and death, good and evil. And you were moved to do this by pride and by hate. Is it any wonder the result was ruin?”

Related Characters: Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk (speaker), Archmage Gensher (speaker), The Shadow
Related Symbols: True Names
Page Number: 78
Explanation and Analysis:

No one knows a man's true name but himself and his namer. […] If plain men hide their true name from all but a few they love and trust utterly, so much more must wizardly men, being more dangerous, and more endangered. Who knows a man’s name, holds that man's life in his keeping. Thus to Ged, who had lost faith in himself, Vetch had given that gift only a friend can give, the proof of unshaken, unshakable trust.

Related Characters: Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk, Vetch / Estarriol
Related Symbols: True Names
Page Number: 82
Explanation and Analysis:

"You thought, as a boy, that a mage is one who can do anything. So I thought, once. So did we all. And the truth is that as a man’s real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he must do..."

Related Characters: The Master Summoner (speaker), Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk
Page Number: 85
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 5 Quotes

"There is no comfort in this place," the Archmage had said to Ged on the day he made him wizard, "no fame, no wealth, maybe no risk. Will you go?"

"I will go," Ged had replied; not from obedience only. Since the night on Roke Knoll his desire had turned as much against fame and display as once it had been set on them. Always now he doubted his strength and dreaded the trial of his power. Yet also the talk of dragons drew him with a great curiosity.

Related Characters: Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk (speaker), Archmage Gensher (speaker)
Page Number: 91
Explanation and Analysis:

Either he must go down the hill into the desert lands and lightless cities of the dead, or he must step across the wall back into life, where the formless evil thing waited for him.

Related Characters: Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk, The Shadow
Page Number: 96
Explanation and Analysis:

"If you could name it you could master it, maybe, little wizard. Maybe I could tell you its name, when I see it close by. And it will come close, if you wait about my isle. It will come wherever you come. If you do not want it to come close you must run, and run, and keep running from it. And yet it will follow you. Would you like to know its name?"

Related Characters: Yevaud, the Dragon of Pendor (speaker), Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk, The Shadow
Page Number: 106
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 6 Quotes

"Leave me at Serd and sail where you like. It's not against your ship this wind blows, but against me."

"Against you, a wizard of Roke?"

"Have you never heard of the Roke-wind, master?"

“Aye, that keeps off evil powers from the Isle of the Wise, but what has that to do with you, a Dragontamer?"

"That is between me and my shadow," Ged answered shortly, as a wizard will; and he said no more as they went swiftly, with a steady wind and under clearing skies, back over the sea to Serd.

Related Characters: Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk (speaker), The Shadow
Page Number: 114
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 7 Quotes

“It will speak of things that were, and are, and will be. It told of your coming, long before you came to this land. Will you ask a question of it now?"

“No."

"It will answer you."

"There is no question I would ask it."

"It might tell you," Serret said in her soft voice, "how you will defeat your enemy."

Ged stood mute.

"Do you fear the stone?" she asked as if unbelieving; and he answered, "Yes."

Related Characters: Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk (speaker), Village Girl / Serret (speaker), The Shadow
Page Number: 136
Explanation and Analysis:

“But I know this: the Old Powers of earth are not for men to use. They were never given into our hands, and in our hands they work only ruin. Ill means, ill end. I was not drawn here, but driven here, and the force that drove me works to my undoing. I cannot help you."

Related Characters: Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk (speaker), Village Girl / Serret
Page Number: 139
Explanation and Analysis:

"I have no strength against the thing," Ged answered.

Ogion shook his head… […] "Strange," he said: "You had strength enough to outspell a sorcerer in his own domain, there in Osskil. You had strength enough to withstand the lures and fend off the attack of the servants of an Old Power of Earth. And at Pendor you had strength enough to stand up to a dragon."

"It was luck I had in Osskil, not strength," Ged replied, and he shivered again as he thought of the dreamlike deathly cold of the Court of the Terrenon. “As for the dragon, I knew his name. The evil thing, the shadow that hunts me, has no name."

“All things have a name," said Ogion.

Related Characters: Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk (speaker), Ogion (speaker), The Shadow, Yevaud, the Dragon of Pendor, Benderesk
Related Symbols: True Names
Page Number: 150
Explanation and Analysis:

"You must turn around."

"Turn around?"

"If you go ahead, if you keep running, wherever you run you will meet danger and evil, for it drives you, it chooses the way you go. You must choose. You must seek what seeks you. You must hunt the hunter."

Related Characters: Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk (speaker), Ogion (speaker), The Shadow
Page Number: 151
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 8 Quotes

There was a great wish in him to stay here on Gont, and forgoing all wizardry and venture, forgetting all power and horror, to live in peace like any man on the known, dear ground of his home land. That was his wish; but his will was other.

Related Characters: Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk
Page Number: 155
Explanation and Analysis:

The shadow had tricked him out onto the moors in Osskil, and tricked him in the mist onto the rocks, and now would there be a third trick? Had he driven the thing here, or had it drawn him here, into a trap? He did not know. He knew only the torment of dread, and the certainty that he must go ahead and do what he had set out to do: hunt down the evil, follow his terror to its source.

Related Characters: Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk, The Shadow
Page Number: 173
Explanation and Analysis:

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.

Related Characters: Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk, The Shadow
Page Number: 175
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 9 Quotes

"Pride was ever your mind's master," his friend said smiling, as if they talked of a matter of small concern to either. "Now think: it is your quest, assuredly, but if the quest fails, should there not be another there who might bear warning to the Archipelago? For the shadow would be a fearful power then. And if you defeat the thing, should there not be another there who will tell of it in the Archipelago, that the Deed may be known and sung? I know I can be of no use to you; yet I think I should go with you."

Related Characters: Vetch / Estarriol (speaker), Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk, The Shadow
Page Number: 185-186
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 10 Quotes

On the course on which they were embarked, the saying of the least spell might change chance and move the balance of power and of doom: for they went now toward the very center of that balance, toward the place where light and darkness meet. Those who travel thus say no word carelessly.

Related Characters: Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk, Vetch / Estarriol
Page Number: 196-197
Explanation and Analysis:

Aloud and clearly, breaking that old silence, Ged spoke the shadow's name and in the same moment the shadow spoke without lips or tongue, saying the same word: "Ged." And the two voices were one voice.

Ged reached out his hands, dropping his staff and took hold of his shadow, of the black self that reached out to him. Light and darkness met, and joined, and were one.

Related Characters: Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk (speaker), The Shadow
Page Number: 212
Explanation and Analysis:

“The wound is healed,” [Ged] said, “I am whole, I am free.” […]

And [Vetch] began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself whole: 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.

Related Characters: Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk (speaker), The Shadow, Vetch / Estarriol
Page Number: 214
Explanation and Analysis:

In the Deed of Ged nothing is told of that voyage nor of Ged's meeting with the shadow, before ever he sailed the Dragons' Run unscathed, or brought back the Ring of Erreth-Akbe from the Tombs of Atuan to Havnor, or came at last to Roke once more, as Archmage of all the islands of the world.

Related Characters: Ged / Duny / Sparrowhawk, The Shadow
Page Number: 217
Explanation and Analysis: