#the tombs of atuan

[bryngreenwood]

This is the book. The Book™️. The one that made me obsessed with books. I read The Tombs of Atuan, when I was 8. I’d read tons of books by then, so it might seem I was already obsessed, except this book made me aware that I was much more interested in fictional worlds than the real world. (And who could blame me?) The copy I first read was one of those battered yellow library books without a cover. The kind of books that were meant to last for decades. It was the only LeGuin book my tiny grade school library had, and I confess, I had no idea it was part of a then trilogy. I didn’t learn about that until the internet came around and it became easy to look up books. While I like and respect the other EarthSea books, they don’t make up a cornerstone of my life the way this one does. You could even say this is the book that radicalized me, because the main character, Tenar, overthrows a lifetime of indoctrination and turns her back on brutal superstition. May we all have that kind of awakening.

[elinekeit-artstuff]

I managed to wrangle my brain enough to read ONE (1) book, wrow!

Anyway, here are some attempts of drawing The Tombs of Atuan era Sparrowhawk from Earthsea.

[wiishopchanelboots]

The Books of Earthsea Illustrations from the complete illustrated edition, Illustrated by Charles Vess [X]

[dimosar]

WHAT IF THE WIZARD OF EARTHSEA HAD WHATSAPP??

[shripscapi]

Tenar <3 my friend promised me a strangegirl protagonist in the Tombs of Atuan and I was not disappointed

[detectivejenko]

earthsea cycle (1-4) spectra 1990s covers

[maddiemuu]

some tombs of atuan fanart! ged and tenar my loves <3

[ehlihr]

tombs of atuan book cover design ! :-) couldnt decide between a warm or cool palette Ha.

graphite on mylar + some digital!

[tales-by-alex]

The Tombs of Autan, Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin.

A short comic from The Tombs of Autan when Arha first sees the light in the tombs and Sparrowhawk for the first time.

[guccigarantine]

tenar was putting a guy she wants to study in a jar before it was cool

[thehauntedrocket]

A Wizard Of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin

A Wizard Of Earthsea / The Tombs Of Atuan / The Farthest Shore

Art by Pauline Ellison

Bantam Books (1975)

[brechtian]

also the way ged ties his soul/fate to tenar’s… I already mentioned the line about the amulets “so you now have my half, and I have yours” which has some pretty overt symbolism & mirrors marriage vows, but also the line “you could keep me a slave, and be a slave; or set me free, and come free with me” as ged saying there is no third option where one goes free and the other stays behind like they are doing it together or not doing it at all which is CRAZY of him…

[elinekeit-artstuff]

An ambitious painting of my good wizard friend I miss him so dearly and I need him in my life u_u

Inspired by Ivan Bilibin painting of St. Prince Vladimir

[arnumdrusk]

“She had stopped and was standing still. Grey, not black. A dull edge of pallor, just visible, where all must be black.

She took a few steps forward and put out her hand to that angle of the tunnel wall; and, infinitely faint, saw the movement of her hand.

She went on. This was strange beyond thought, beyond fear, this faint blooming light where no light had ever been, in the inmost grave of darkness. She went noiseless on bare feet, black-clothed. At the last turn of the corridor she halted; then very slowly took the last step, and looked, and saw.”

- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan

I had so much fun making this! Reading the Earthsea books for the first time and I just fell in love with the Ged and Tenar and the world, I had to make some art! Process [X]

[dimosar]

The Priestess of the Tombs of Atuan

"There are rooms underneath the Hall, underneath the whole Place, under where we stand now. There's a great maze of tunnels, a Labyrinth. It's like a great dark city, under the hill. Full of gold, and the swords of old heroes, and old crowns, and bones, and years, and silence." She spoke as if in trance, in rapture. Manan watched her. His slabby face never expressed much but stolid, careful sadness; it was sadder than usual now. "Well, and you're mistress of all that," he said. "The silence, and the dark." "I am."

[jeffpennington]

Had to doodle Ged from A Wizard of Earthsea cause I just finished reading the first book and loved it so so much