JRR Tolkien was a racist hot mess but I'm still like outright gobsmacked at people who actually call Harry Potter our generation's Lord of the Rings Just in terms of the amount of effort expended it isn't even CLOSE, and it's OBVIOUShttps://twitter.com/mightygodking/status/1269405886122020865 …
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Replying to @arthur_affect
it's as if the Worst Witch or Groosham Grange (FAR superior stories) never existed
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Replying to @PerthshireMags @arthur_affect
Personally I tend to default to Earthsea for my wizard schools. If you have your hero shapeshift into a dragon to fight off a bunch of other dragons, I'm gonna be a fan.
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Oh well now I have to read this because of the visual novel I’m making
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Replying to @WlNTERDAYDREAMS @SwallowWaltz and
A Wizard of Earthsea, by Ursula K. LeGuin.
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Replying to @scots_dragon @SwallowWaltz and
There's a Ghibli film that's okay but not very accurate adapted from the third and fourth novels. There's a SyFy original movie adapted from the first two novels and you should Avoid It Like the Damn Plague
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Le Guin wrote a hilariously scathing review of both (although the one for the Sci-Fi Channel - as we called it back then - version was way harsher)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @scots_dragon and
Still, her ethering Goro Miyazaki by saying she was lied to and told his father Hayao Miyazaki ("the real Miyazaki") would be directing and calling him a pale imitation of the original the way the movie was of her books was one of the meanest things she's ever written
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I guess it's personal when you're the author and all
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Rick Riordan and Ursula K. LeGuin have that in common. And it's Rowling of all people who managed to get reasonably accurate takes on her work.
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