Earthsea

[altariel]

I went hunting for Earthsea fanfiction at the start of the year, after I reread the series (before reading the new ones). Found some today by daegaer here.



It's interesting that Tehanu is often seen as an attempt to re-engineer the earlier books, but I have a sneaking admiration for Le Guin in having the courage to revisit a set of books that made her name - and say where she got it wrong.

I also love the beauty that she finds in very small, intimate moments. There's a sentence in Tehanu that I just adore: "They made and ate their supper and cleared it away."

Comments

[ithilwen.livejournal.com]

The problem I had with Tehanu is that it's Ged (and to a lesser extent, Tenar) I'm interested in - not Therru. And so I found myself resenting it every time Therru made an appearance on the page; I wanted to shove her out of the way so we could get back to the important story, of Ged's adaptation to a 'lesser' (i.e. normal) life.

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[altariel.livejournal.com]

I primarily got very engrossed in the Ged and Tenar romance. But the story of Ged's adaptation to no longer having his mage powers hit just as I was doing a lot of reading about female writers who write about shellshock, so that all connected up in my head.