/lit/ - Literature

>>19564193
I read Earthsea fairly recently as an adult aswell, and even after reading tons of other "high" literature they held up well for me.
What you describe as being the summary of a story, rather than a story itself, gave the books a certain ephemerality, which combines well with the very high amount of original ideas, for a potent fairy tale charm in combination.

I don't really see much in the first book, beyond it being the origin of the now completely ubitiqous tropes of true-naming and magical balance in Fantasy, but I see why some people call Tombs of Atuan particularily literature.