I didn’t see why everybody in heroic fantasy had to be white (and why all the leading women had ‘violet eyes’). As Le Guin wrote in 2004 responding to the adaptation’s whitewashing, “I didn’t see why everybody in science fiction had to be a honky named Bob or Joe or Bill. The priestess Tenar (in some ways the real protagonist of the Earthsea books) has white skin, but only because she hails from the faraway Kargish lands, full of barbarians and people ignorant of magic. Ged has red-brown skin, as does his royal young friend Prince Arren and most of their other associates. Very few characters in Earthsea have white skin. Speaking of the awful Earthsea adaptation, there is actually one major element of the series that both Rowling and Paolini eschewed, and showed Le Guin to be far ahead of her time.
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