It's based on the Earthsea series of novels (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthsea) and was very loosely adapted, it seem. Here's what the author had to say about it:
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I can only admire Mr [Executive Producer Robert] Halmi's imagination, but I wish he'd left mine alone... I wonder if the people who made the film of The Lord of the Rings had ended it with Frodo putting on the Ring and ruling happily ever after, and then claimed that that was what Tolkien "intended..." Would people think they'd been "very, very honest to the books?"
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