• Rooty@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    11 days ago

    Go read Le Guin’s Earthsea books instead, which are genuinely better written, and LeGuin was a great person who wrote a lot of socially progressive literature. Not to mention that it hasn’t been turned into a fucking corporate media franchise like LOTR.

    • Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      6·
      11 days ago

      JK Rowling:

      We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.

      Proceeds to fund fascists

      Ursula K. Le Guin :

      Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the knownothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.

      (Apparently frequently misattributed to Tolkien. I love his writings but the man was not nearly as based as Ursula Le Guin)

      I know this has energy, but I did try to look for a Rowling quote that wasn’t some uninspired one-liner that she unconsciously copied from some Disney movie

    • CitizenKong@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      11 days ago

      I mean there is a a terrible TV adaptation starring Iceman and Lana Lang as well as a beautiful but boring Ghibli movie, but I agree that Earthsea is amazing.