Just after seeing Studio Ghibli's Tales from Earthsea. A lot is lost in the translation (to Japanese, to anime, to a PG film) but it brought back good memories for me. I was staggered by those books when I read them, at the low end of the acceptable age-range. They expanded my vocabulary, and my sense of wonder, and (I think) my sense of ethics and my place in the world. Until seeing the movie, today, I'd forgotten what a poetic world Le Guin created, populated with the Archmage and True Names and the Tombs of Atuan (which I still remember as the scariest place I'd ever imagined, and the book where I learned the word 'eunuch'). I desperately want to re-read the books, now.