The Wizard of Earthsea

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This is not on the show, just like you and me personally, nobody else needs to know about it. This was a recommendation from a saunte who literally said, hey, could you discuss a Wizard of Earthsea? That was the message. I mean, I'm surprised we haven't hit it. When did that must have come in like relatively late in the thing? Because I can't imagine us not like jumping on this soon or otherwise. Like I think we would have gotten around to this anyway because we've read a ton of fantasy. Yeah. She says that she started drawing the map of the place before she even started writing the story. Yes, she did. That's

Would a rose by any other name smell as sweet? If you're a wizard of Earthsea, you can make it smell however you want if you know it's TRUE name. LeGuin's beloved fantasy novel is notable for how it plays both against and into common fantasy tropes, delivering a proper hero's journey without the same Sturm und Drang we've come to expect in the genre.

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