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Even Beyond All Other Lands by Bounce (PG)
Fandom: EARTHSEA
Pairing: Ged/Arren
Length: ~1000 words
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
_bounce_
Author Website: Not to my knowledge
Why this must be read:
I hope you enjoyed my whirlwind trip through some of Earthsea's many relatively minor characters, but for my last couple of recommendations this month, I'm returning to the principals. The Farthest Shore is closer to Tolkien than the rest of the Earthsea series, and its point-of-view character Arren is an Aragorn-like figure who goes on a quest across Earthsea with Ged, travels through death, fulfils a prophecy and is named the king of the Archipelago. As King Lebannen, he also appears in Tehanu & The Other Wind. Arren is portrayed in canon as loving Ged and deeply grieved when Ged, 'done with doing', refuses to meet him in Tehanu.
Despite all the potential for angst, fanfiction tends to pass Arren by. This short piece, among the earliest online fanfiction in the fandom, takes up the story from Arren's point of view at the end of The Farthest Shore and bridges to Arren's appearance in Tehanu. It succeeds in portraying Arren's desperate longing for Ged, without diminishing Arren's strength.
Ged showed him Gont once. An illusion shimmering across the open surface of a water casket. He had laughed that day and later he had called down a thunder storm. He had seen Ged, Sparrowhawk, standing in the prow of Lookfar, drenched to the skin and laughing in delight at the fury of the storm that he had called to replenish the water in their casks.
Even Beyond All Other Lands by Bounce
Pairing: Ged/Arren
Length: ~1000 words
Author on LJ:
_bounce_Author Website: Not to my knowledge
Why this must be read:
I hope you enjoyed my whirlwind trip through some of Earthsea's many relatively minor characters, but for my last couple of recommendations this month, I'm returning to the principals. The Farthest Shore is closer to Tolkien than the rest of the Earthsea series, and its point-of-view character Arren is an Aragorn-like figure who goes on a quest across Earthsea with Ged, travels through death, fulfils a prophecy and is named the king of the Archipelago. As King Lebannen, he also appears in Tehanu & The Other Wind. Arren is portrayed in canon as loving Ged and deeply grieved when Ged, 'done with doing', refuses to meet him in Tehanu.
Despite all the potential for angst, fanfiction tends to pass Arren by. This short piece, among the earliest online fanfiction in the fandom, takes up the story from Arren's point of view at the end of The Farthest Shore and bridges to Arren's appearance in Tehanu. It succeeds in portraying Arren's desperate longing for Ged, without diminishing Arren's strength.
Ged showed him Gont once. An illusion shimmering across the open surface of a water casket. He had laughed that day and later he had called down a thunder storm. He had seen Ged, Sparrowhawk, standing in the prow of Lookfar, drenched to the skin and laughing in delight at the fury of the storm that he had called to replenish the water in their casks.
Even Beyond All Other Lands by Bounce