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TALES FROM EARTHSEA

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TALES FROM

EARTHSEA

Ursula K. Le Guin

“Darkrose and Diamond” first appeared in

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

“Dragonfly” first appeared in Legends.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-

Tales from Earthsea / Ursula K. Le Guin.-

1st ed. p. cm.

Contents:

The finder-

Darkrose and Diamond-

The bones of the earth-

On the high marsh-

Dragonfly-

A description of Earthsea.

Summary: Explores further the magical world of Earthsea through five tales of events

which occur before or after the time of the original novels, as well as an essay on the people,

languages, history and magic of the place.

ISBN 0-15-100561-3 I. Fantasy fiction, American, [I. Fantasy. 2. Short stories.] I. Title.

PZ7.L52I5 Tal 2001 [Fic]-dc21 2001016554

Text set in Adobe Jenson

First edition ACBGIKJHFDB

Printed in the United States of America

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Contents

Foreword. 3

The Finder 6

Darkrose And Diamond. 61

The Bones of the Earth. 80

On the High Marsh. 91

Dragonfly. 108

A Description of Earthsea. 145

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Foreword

AT THE END OF THE fourth book of Earthsea, Tehanu, the story had arrived at what I felt

to be now. And, just as in the now of the so-called real world, I didn’t know what would hap-

pen next. I could guess, foretell, fear, hope, but I didn’t know.

Unable to continue Tehanu’s story (because it hadn’t happened yet) and foolishly assum-

ing that the story of Ged and Tenar had reached its happily-ever-after, I gave the book a sub-

title: “The Last Book of Earthsea.”

O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a time, now isn’t

then.

Seven or eight years after Tehanu was published, I was asked to write a story set in

Earthsea. A mere glimpse at the place told me that things had been happening there while I

wasn’t looking. It was high time to go back and find out what was going on now.

I also wanted information on various things that had happened back then, before Ged and

Tenar were born. A good deal about Earthsea, about wizards, about Roke Island, about

dragons, had begun to puzzle me. In order to understand current events, I needed to do some

historical research, to spend some time in the Archives of the Archipelago.

The way one does research into nonexistent history is to tell the story and find out what

happened. I believe this isn’t very different from what historians of the so-called real world do.

Even if we are present at some historic event, do we comprehend it-can we even remember

it-until we can tell it as a story? And for events in times or places outside our own experience,

we have nothing to go on but the stories other people tell us. 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 con-

tinuing reality is entirely up to us, dependent on our energy and honesty. If we let it drop from

memory, only imagination can restore the least glimmer of it. If we lie about the past, forcing it

to tell a story we want it to tell, to mean what we want it to mean, it loses its reality, becomes

a fake. To bring the past along with us through time in the hold-alls of myth and history is a

heavy undertaking; but as Lao Tzu says, wise people march along with the baggage wagons.

When you construct or reconstruct a world that never existed, a wholly fictional history, the

research is of a somewhat different order, but the basic impulse and techniques are much the

same. You look at what happens and try to see why it happens, you listen to what the people

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