History Trivia / Earthsea

* TheWikiRule: [[http://earthsea.wikia.com/wiki/Earthsea_Wiki The Earthsea Wiki]].

* OutlivedItsCreator: The final Earthsea story, ''Firelight'', was published a few months after Le Guin's death, though she wrote it herself. No one else has taken up the stories since then.

* OldShame: The original depiction of Earthsea's sexist societies was just because that was what genre convention was at the time, not with any eye towards questioning it. Le Guin attributed the two-decade gap between the third and fourth books to this; she couldn't finish it until she saw the issue and figured out how she wanted to address it.

* OutlivedItsCreator: The final Eatrhsea story, ''Firelight'', was published a few months after Le Guins death, though this trope is DownPlayed considering that A). she wrote it herself and B). no one else seems in a hurry to carry on the series, although there are plans for a TV series.

* DisownedAdaptation: Creator/UrsulaKLeGuin ''[[http://www.ursulakleguin.com/Earthsea.html loathed]]'' the miniseries, particularly the fact they {{Race Lift}}ed the brown Ged into a fairly generic white ActionHero. That the producers had baited her into sign over the filming rights with false promises that she would have a great amount of control over the adaptation, only to gradually cut her completely out of the creative process and straight up ignore her repeated attempts to point her concerns over the script, called her "Miss [=LeGuin=]" and their false claims that she approved the adaptation certainly did nothing to help.

* DisownedAdaptation: Creator/UrsulaKLeGuin ''[[http://www.ursulakleguin.com/Earthsea.html loathed]]'' the miniseries, particularly the fact they {{Race Lift}}ed the brown Ged into a fairly generic white ActionHero. That the producers called her "Miss [=LeGuin=]" and their false claims that she approved the adaptation certainly did nothing to help.

* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: [=LeGuin=] was open from the start that she had no idea what any place on the gigantic world map was like until a story visited it. At least half were left still a mystery at the time of her death.

* OutlivedItsCreator: The final Eatrhsea story, ''Firelight'', was published a few months after Le Guins death, though this trope is DownPlayed considering that she A). wrote it herself and B). no one else seems in a hurry to carry on the series, although there are plans for a TV series.

* DisownedAdaptation: Creator/UrsulaKLeGuin ''[[http://www.ursulakleguin.com/Earthsea.html loathed]]'' the miniseries. That the producers called her "Miss [=LeGuin=]" and their false claims that she approved the adaptation certainly did nothing to help.

* RomanceOnTheSet: Mark Hildreth (Jasper) and Kristin Kreuk (Tenar).

* DisownedAdaptation: Creator/UrsulaKLeGuin ''[[http://www.ursulakleguin.com/Earthsea.html loathed]]'' the miniseries.

* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: [=LeGuin=] was open from the start that she had no idea what any place on the gigantic world map was like until a story visited it.