just finished the audiobook (not for the first time) and then the Shelved By Genre post on this book and feel compelled to have a take on a pretty minor point:
the reason that she has Ged so visibly immiserated by the Nameless Ones (but to have this happen only internally) when he gets to the treasure rooms is not so much because of genre constraints but because she wants to prepare the viewer for the idea that the nameless ones do have some power, at least over thoughts. it's foreshadowing for the way that returning back out through the labyrinth will be a trial and a battle of wills for Tenar. Otherwise it might seem like she had suddenly lost her nerve or gotten scared of the darkness for no reason - it needs him to describe battling the threat for it to seem serious when she then has to face it.
also unrelatedly : man the bit about the rabbit! fuck! what a way to make explicit some of the fucked up power stuff in the story.