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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Storm Raven" data-source="post: 1920214" data-attributes="member: 307">I didn't miss it, I just noted that their use in the television version bore little to no relationship to their use in the books. Yes, they got some of the names the same, but most of the characters who had those names had little in common with the versions from the books.The Doorkeeper, for example, did we ever find out he was the Master Doorkeeper? Or why you had to give him your name to enter (and have his help to leave)? The labyrinth went from being a place of power for the nameless ones, to their prison, hardly even close to the same thing.Given that the Khargad story line was basically invented from whole cloth (every scene that Tygath showed up in was new), and the position of the Khargad as "an invading plague" was a radically different take on their place, that's one of the three storylines that has no relation to the books.Given that the Atuan storyline was radically different, and the only thing they kept the same was the existence of the labyrinth (but changed its purpose) and radically changed every character (including Arha/Tenar, Kossul and so on), eliminated the temple of the Godking, and inverted the entire storyline, there's another third of the movie that has almost no relation to the books. (By the way, why did they, given their retention of the true names idea, eliminate the concept of Arha, whose name had supposedly been taken from her)?Given that the Ged/Sparrowhawk story was altered so that the Gebbeth (which was a different creature from what it was in the books) was now the same as the nameless ones from Atuan, and the resolution of the quest made no sense (and now apparently imbued Ged with super strength). And Jasper, and Vetch, and Roke were all oddly altered (in most cases so they fit with the nonsensical Tygath storyline). I still can't figure out why they reversed Ged/Sparrowhawk's names. And there was no mention of dragonlords, only that Ged could talk to Orm Embar, in a conversation that was, once again, entirely made up for the miniseries.And your invocation of the "broken Amulet of Peace" as a similarity doesn't work. The Ring of Erreth-Akbe wasn't an amulet of peace, and it wasn't part of "binding the nameless ones" or whatever the (incomprehensible) resolution in the miniseries was. And it wasn't something the priestsesses of Atuan wanted, but rather something they intentionally broke in half.Given that the televised version bore such little relation to the books in so many ways, I'm not sure how you think that it "hit the high points". They used the same names in some places, but by and large, those names were attached to things that had nothing in common with what they had previosuly been attached to. The miniseries didn't hit the highlights from the books, it aped the books with hollow imitation at best.Not sure how you missed that.</blockquote>

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