Re:Since when (Score 1)

The author's opinion is about as valid as anyone else's as long as they RESPECT THE TEXT. The point here is not that LeGuin's vision is distorted... The text iself is distorted to send a different message (one the producers of the series are forcing upon it). A work of literature stands alone bound by rules set out in the text. It says what it says, not what the author or anyone else claims it says. This is one of the problems with literary criticism. The forcing of a social or political framework upon a text that won't support it in order to further an agenda outside the literary. The producers, as LeGuin correctly points out, are feeding off the LoTR/Harry Potter magic craze with a dose of sex. Very sad indeed.