Terribly disappointing adaptation of Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea trilogy This revealed to me what a fantastic job Peter Jackson did in adapting Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy to the big screen. He was able to adhere very closely to the books within the limitations of the film media.

On the other hand, the Sci Fi adaptation of my much beloved Earthsea trilogy is a massacre. They might as well have named it something else, using different characters names and so forth. They cut out the third book in the trilogy, and mashed together the first two into something that was totally unfaithful to the original work — it's a different story. The loss is inevitable. That this is an adapation of a piece of fiction is a fiction. This is an entirely different story. It pales in comparison to Le Guin's trilogy. It's horrible.

Even the acting was terrible. Again, compare it to the film adaption of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. The cast, even the animated characters (like Gollum), was fantastic. I believe Tolkien would have approved. The acting in Earthsea seems flat and uninspired, like it was forced.

Ursula Le Guin is a great writer. She deserved much better. Here is a link to provide information on Ursule Le Guin, which hopefully will inspire you to read her books, particularly the Earthsea ones, and rinse out the bad aftertaste of the Sci Fi fiction of an adaptation.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin - John Colby , posted 03/19/0