The Importance of Friendship

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Ged, the arc mage in "The Deathly Hallows," was killed by an evil creature. The stakes of the world based on this like, spell that he cast,. Is he unleashed this like nefarious little evil creature? So over the course of the novel, it attacks him at least one or two more times. Get is worried that if it gets to him, it will possess him and then he can use all of get's power to do whatever it wants. And there's no like, there's maybe one reference in all of the wizard books to something like this happening ever.

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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