Editing Tehanu (section)

== Background ==

''Tehanu'' is the fourth book in the ''[[Earthsea]]'' cycle, which began with her 1968 novel ''[[A Wizard of Earthsea]]'' and its protagonist, Sparrowhawk, whose [[true name]] is Ged. As described by the author, [[Ursula Le Guin]], in a recorded afterward to the 2016 audiobook version, as ''Tehanu'' opens, approximately 25 years have passed since the events at the end of ''[[The Tombs of Atuan]]'', "time enough for the girl Tenar to become a widow with grown children"; and "a day or two" has passed from the close of ''[[The Farthest Shore]]'' to ''Tehanu''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Chapter 4, "Kalessin", "time enough for [that] dragon... to carry Ged from Roke to Gont."{{efn|Le Guin says: "Between the last chapter of ''The Tombs of Atuan'' and the first chapter of ''Tehanu'', twenty-five years or so pass, time enough for the girl Tenar to become a widow with grown children. Between the last chapter of ''The Farthest Shore'' and the fourth chapter of ''Tehanu'', a day or two passes, time enough for the dragon Kalessin to carry Ged from Roke to Gont."<ref name=LeGuinAfterwardInterprEssay>{{cite AV media |people=Le Guin, Ursula K. (author, narrator) & Sterlin, Jenny (narrator) |date= May 31, 2016 |title=Tehanu: The Earthsea Cycle, Book Four |type=audiobook |url=https://rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/9781501923920/ |access-date=4 December 2024 |version=unabridged ed. |time=0:00-0:26 (of afterward) |location=Landover, Maryland |publisher=Recorded Books—RBmedia |asin=B01G9EP4ZQ}}</ref>}}