Tehanu is my favorite in the series; I'm sorry you feel that way! > And Ged kills a guy (which he didn't in the first three books) and gets to have sex right a

Tehanu is my favorite in the series; I'm sorry you feel that way! > And Ged kills a guy (which he didn't in the first three books) and gets to have sex right after, pretty explicitly as a reward - that was a bit of a "what the hell, author?" moment. Two people with a long-standing attraction having sex after a life-or-death experience seems completely natural to me. Your framing of them having sex BECAUSE Ged killed a man is a misrepresentation of what happens in the book.