The Ecology of the Archipelago

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Ligwen says the book's original cover features an illustration by Ruth Robbins. The ecology of the zone of the archipelago to Ligwen felt kind of like, I don't know, again, I could be wrong, but it felt kind of Northern European and not out of step with the Tolkien type verse. She was part of the last class of this book given out at University of Wisconsin Madison from 1958 to 1979.

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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