{"id":41984,"date":"2024-03-04T06:30:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T17:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=41984"},"modified":"2024-03-03T18:32:32","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T05:32:32","slug":"new-on-supernatural-underground-now-the-year-of-the-villain-2-earthsea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2024\/03\/04\/new-on-supernatural-underground-now-the-year-of-the-villain-2-earthsea\/","title":{"rendered":"New On Supernatural Underground Now: The Year of the Villain #2 & Earthsea"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yep, it really is that time again, despite the bonus of a leap day. So-o on March 1, I posted the second in my The Year of the Villain<\/a> in Fantasy series on Supernatural Underground<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Last month, I delved into the pantheon of villains in JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings<\/em><\/strong>.<\/a> Seminal stuff, I know — but so, too, (imho) is the treatment of evil and villainy in Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

As noted in the post, I regard “both as hugely influential on the genre, but also profoundly different in terms of how their books work.”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

To find out why, and take a closer look at the villains of Earthsea, click on:<\/p>\n

The Year of the Villain #2: Ursula Le Guin & Earthsea<\/a><\/h3>\n

Let me know what you think — especially if you think there’s a treatment of villainy that departs from the Tolkien or Le Guin models. Since it’s impossible to read every book one’s ownself, yanno… \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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Le Guin’s world of Earthsea<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yep, it really is that time again, despite the bonus of a leap day. So-o on March 1, I posted the second in my The Year of the Villain in Fantasy series on Supernatural Underground. Last month, I delved into the pantheon of villains in JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. Seminal stuff, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,14,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-influences-on-story","category-other-writers","category-supernatural-underground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41985,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41984\/revisions\/41985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}