The Farthest Shore (edit title)

Griffin edited the characters of The Farthest Shore Wednesday, September 30 2009.

• Changed the section title: Cast of Characters/Important People
• Added a character: Ged
• Added a character: Arren

Amanda approved Timothy Gray’s request to change the title of The Farthest Shore Thursday, August 20 2009.

Shelfari edited the description of The Farthest Shore Sunday, August 2 2009.

• DARKNESS THREATENS to overtake Earthsea. As the world and its wizards are losing their magic, Ged -- powerful Archmage, wizard, and dragonlord -- embarks on a sailing journey with highborn young prince, Arren. They travel far beyond the realm of death to discover the cause of these evil disturbances and to restore magic to a land desperately thirsty for it. With millions of copies sold, Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea Cycle has earned a treasured place on the shelves of fantasy lovers everywhere. Complex, innovative, and deeply moral, this quintessential fantasy sequence has been compared with the work of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, and has helped make Le Guin one of the most distinguished fantasy and science fiction writers of all time. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Farthest Shore Tuesday, July 21 2009.

• reordered the contributors.
• 1 : Ursula K. Le Guin:
• 2 : Gail Garraty:

Timothy Gray edited the first sentence of The Farthest Shore Saturday, July 18 2009.

• IN THE COURT OF THE FOUNTAIN THE SUNIn the court of the fountain of the sun of March shone through young leaves of ash and elm, and water leapt and fell through shadow and clear light.

Timothy Gray edited the contributors of The Farthest Shore Saturday, July 18 2009.

• Added a contributor: Gail Garraty: (Illustrator)

Timothy Gray edited the series of The Farthest Shore Saturday, July 18 2009.

• Added this book in the series: The Earthsea Cycle book 3 (Primary series)

Timothy Gray edited the summary of The Farthest Shore Saturday, July 18 2009.

• A strange, inexplicable malaise is spreading throughout Earthsea. Magic is losing its power; songs are being forgotten; people and animals are sickening or going mad. Accompanied by Arren, the young Prince of Enlad, the Archmage Ged leaves Roke Island to find the cause. After a journey fraught with many missteps, they travel to the end of the earth, and beyond, into the land of the dead. There they confront and defeat the mage Cob, who had opened a breach between the worlds in an attempt to cheat death and live forever. In order to shut this breach, Ged sacrifices all his magic.

  When they emerge back into the world of the living, Arren realizes that he has fulfilled the prediction of the last King of Earthsea many centuries before: "He shall inherit my throne who has crossed the dark land living and come to the far shores of the day." In the intervening time, the realm had broken up into smaller principalities and domains, with little peace between them. Now they can be reunited.

  Le Guin offers us two endings to the story. In one, after Arren's coronation, Ged sails alone out into the ocean and is never heard from again. In the other, Ged returns to the forest of his home island of Gont. In 1990, seventeen years after the publication of The Farthest Shore, Le Guin opted for the second ending when she continued the story in Tehanu.

Timothy Gray changed the title of The Farthest Shore Saturday, July 18 2009.

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Farthest Shore Saturday, July 18 2009.

• Added a contributor: Ursula K. Le Guin: (Primary Author)