But Victoria. Surely, knowing, as many of us did, as soon as we read the first three, that the gender politics of Earthsea was all wrong, it was reasonable to expect that at some time in its history this would be resolved.
That this was achieved without a great movement or revolution but simply by a few individuals in the last three books was something to be approved of.
That, at the same time, the real relationship between mankind and the dragons was cleared up is a further thing to be wondered at, as well as allowing the archipelago to be part of our earth when the dragons moved into what Tolkien would call the uttermost west. (about the only correspondance between Earthsea and Middle Earth, although many sought to find other links, as they do between Middle Earth and Donaldson's Land etc.)
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That all of those resolutions occurred during the time of, and in some sort of relationship to, Ged and those fairly close to him, ties the whole thing together.
That this was achieved without a great movement or revolution but simply by a few individuals in the last three books was something to be approved of.
That, at the same time, the real relationship between mankind and the dragons was cleared up is a further thing to be wondered at, as well as allowing the archipelago to be part of our earth when the dragons moved into what Tolkien would call the uttermost west. (about the only correspondance between Earthsea and Middle Earth, although many sought to find other links, as they do between Middle Earth and Donaldson's Land etc.)
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That all of those resolutions occurred during the time of, and in some sort of relationship to, Ged and those fairly close to him, ties the whole thing together.
