In this series, I’ll be working my way through Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea works and analyzing her prose chapter by chapter. Spoilers follow.
Chapter 3: Azver
Length: 17 pages
Setting: Roke
Ivory disappears with neither comeuppance or redemption, and of course his magic is no match for the Doorkeeper and the House of the Wise.
It’s interesting to see Roke demystified in some fashion, to finally walk in the present tense among the trees of the Imminent Grove without the awed lens of Ged.
There are lots of parallels here in “Dragonfly.” Thorion has become like Cob. Dragonfly leaves the House of the Wise by Medra’s Door and goes to stay in the Otter’s House. This is a story, I think, about the end of Roke as it has been.
There’s more to say on that after the story is finished.
Until next time.
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