Niska ,'War Stories'
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I have zero familiarity with Earthsea. Sounds like I still will even if I watch the mini.
I expect so. I rather doubt they'll get into all the really interesting stuff, about the naming of names, the constraints on the use of magic, the importance of language, all the thousands of years of history behind the characters.
I'm really very nervous about this.
Jen, while the first two books are arguably for children, they read as mythical and pain-filled and somehow very true in the same way that The Hobbit did for me. I'd be hard pressed to suggest something more worthy of reading.
they read as mythical and pain-filled and somehow very true in the same way that The Hobbit did for me.
In many ways, more so. What the protagonists do, in pride or ignorance, is far beyond any error Bilbo would ever make.
I'd be hard pressed to suggest something more worthy of reading.
That's a rec I will take, then. I'm surprised I'd never heard of it, actually. (Edited to remove babbling. Sometimes I use too many words.)
Well, you've heard of LeGuin, I assume, yeah?
IIRC, one or more of the Earthsea novels won the Newberry award back in the early 70s.
Point taken. But they're still wrong as a wrong thing. Wrong, wrong, wrong.
My god, these girls have barrettes! t flails in disgust
I don't care what you dress Kristin Kreuk in -- she's going to ... god, she sounded awful.
I never really loved Earthsea, so I don't have the kind of gut-level picture of it that I do of Tolkien, but I remember the Tombs of Atuan and man, I never pictured it as even vaguely faux-medieval. More... I dunno. Greek, if anything.
I do remember envisioning it as bare -- robes, not dresses, you know?