A side note - Ursula Le Guin was pissed off when the screen adaption of "A Wizard of Earthsea" used all white actors, despite her writing them all as Polynesian

A side note - Ursula Le Guin was pissed off when the screen adaption of "A Wizard of Earthsea" used all white actors, despite her writing them all as Polynesian or Asian (except the evil Viking-raider inspired Karg).