Tehanu (1990) is the first book of the second Earthsea trilogy.
Tropes
- Abusive Parents: Tehanu's father raped her and threw her into a fire when she was a child, and later on killed her pregnant mother.
- Character Title: Tehanu.
- Cosmic Deadline: The book is fairly slow-paced until the last chapter, when suddenly the main characters fall into a trap laid by the evil wizard who cursed Tenar, who savagely beats them then attempts to force them to jump off a cliff to their deaths. This prompts Tenar to finally call out the dragon's name she learned after spending all book dreaming about it, who arrives, burns them to death, and reveals that Tehanu is actually a dragon in human form.
- Curse: Aspen lays one on Tenar, which controls her speech and later forces her to come to him. She tries to use the same curse again, but to no avail.
- The Dying Walk: Tenar helps her old friend Aihal (Ogion the Silent) walk from his deathbed to the meadow where he wants to die.
- He-Man Woman Hater: Every unsympathetic man is one of these, especially the wizards.
- P.O.V. Sequel: The first half follows Tenar as she reacts to the changes wrought on Earthsea in The Farthest Shore.
- Two-Faced: Therru provides a full-body example of this trope, having been horribly burned by her parents prior to the events of the book.
