Characters in Earthsea - Use-names and Child-names

Use-names and Child-names

  • Alder – Hara
  • Apple – Hayohe
  • Arha – Tenar, when she was priestess of the Tombs of Atuan. Arha means "eaten" in Kargish.
  • Arren – Lebannen, before he became king. Arren means "sword" in the Hardic dialect of Enlad.
  • Aspen – Erisen
  • Diamond – Essiri. For short, "Di".
  • Dragonfly – Irian.
  • Dulse – Heleth
  • Duny – child-name of Ged
  • Early – Teriel
  • Ember – Elehal
  • Flag – Anieb
  • Gelluk – Tinaral; an Osskilian name.
  • Gift – Emer
  • Goha – Tenar, after she had settled on Gont. Goha is a word for a white web-spinning spider in Hardic.
  • Gully – Irioth. Transient use-name.
  • Hawk – Ged, when he sailed the South Reach in disguise.
  • Kelub – Ged, when he rowed on an Osskilian galley. Kelub means "red" in Osskilian.
  • Lily – Mevre
  • Moss – Hatha
  • Ogion – Aihal. Ogion means "fir-cone" in Hardic.
  • Otak – Irioth
  • Otter – Medra, during his youth in Havnor.
  • Rose – Etaudis.
  • Silence – Aihal, when he was serving Heleth.
  • Sparrowhawk – Ged
  • Sunbright – Ayeth
  • Tern – Medra, when he dwelt in Roke.
  • Therru – Tehanu. Therru means "burning" or "flaming" in Kargish.
  • Underhill – Yevaud, when he dwelt on Sattins island.
  • Veil – Yahan
  • Vetch – Estarriol
  • Yarrow – Kest
Works by Ursula K. Le Guin
Bibliography — All Works — Adaptations
Earthsea
  • "The Word of Unbinding" (1964)
  • "The Finder" (2001)
  • "Darkrose and Diamond" (1999)
  • "The Rule of Names" (1964)
  • "The Bones of the Earth" (2001)
  • A Wizard of Earthsea (1968)
  • The Tombs of Atuan (1971)
  • "On the High Marsh" (2001)
  • The Farthest Shore (1972)
  • Tehanu (1990)
  • "Dragonfly" (1997)
  • Tales from Earthsea (2001)
  • The Other Wind (2001)
related
  • Category:Earthsea
  • Earthsea Revisioned (1993)
Hainish Cycle
  • "Dowry of the Angyar" (1964)
  • Rocannon's World (1966)
  • Planet of Exile (1966)
  • City of Illusions (1967)
  • The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)
  • "Winter's King" (1969)
  • "Vaster Than Empires and More Slow" (1971)
  • The Dispossessed (1974)
  • "The Day Before the Revolution" (1974)
  • The Word for World Is Forest (1976)
  • "The Shobies' Story" (1990)
  • "Dancing to Ganam" (1993)
  • "Another Story or A Fisherman of the Inland Sea" (1994)
  • "The Matter of Seggri" (1994)
  • "Unchosen Love" (1994)
  • "Solitude" (1994)
  • Four Ways to Forgiveness (1995)
  • "Coming of Age in Karhide" (1995)
  • "Mountain Ways" (1996)
  • "Old Music and the Slave Women" (1999)
  • The Telling (2000)
related Category:Hainish Cycle
Other fiction
Novels
  • The Lathe of Heaven (1971)
  • The Eye of the Heron (1978)
  • Malafrena (1979)
  • The Beginning Place (1980)
  • Always Coming Home (1985)
  • Annals of the Western Shore series (2004-2007)
  • Lavinia (2008)
Short stories
  • "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" (1973)
  • The Wind's Twelve Quarters (1975)
  • Orsinian Tales (1976)
  • The Compass Rose (1982)
  • Buffalo Gals, and Other Animal Presences (1987)
  • Searoad (1991)
  • A Fisherman of the Inland Sea (1994)
  • Unlocking the Air and Other Stories (1996)
  • The Birthday of the World (2002)
  • Changing Planes (2003)
Picture books Catwings (1988–1999)
Nonfiction
  • The Language of the Night (1979)
  • Dancing at the Edge of the World (1982)
  • Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching (1997)
  • Steering the Craft (1998)
  • The Wave in the Mind (2004)

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