Mostly a guilty
pleasure for me, so I have a pretty-much-permanent place for them, but also
perhaps for you, if you are interested in C.S. Lewis’s masterpiece of Christian
science fiction, Out of the Silent Planet
…
22 chapters + a
postscript
153 pages in my 1996
Scribner paperback edition
Human characters
Dr. Elwin Ransom
Devine
Weston
Harry, young assistant to Weston and Devine (brief)
Harry’s mother (brief)
Lewis himself, unnamed
Malacandra –
Mars
Perelandra –
Venus
Thulcandra –
Earth
Glundandra –
Jupiter
Malcandrian
animals – silver eels, giraffe-like herd animals
Hnakra (pl. Hnéraki)
– barracuda-sharks
3 intelligent
species on Malacandra:
Hross (pl.
hrossa, hressni)
Sorn (pl. séroni)
Pfifltriggi
Vocabulary
Handra – earth,
dirt, ground
Handramit –
valley
Harandra –
mountain
Honodraskrud –
pinkish weed
Thulc – silent
Hnau – sentient,
embodied being
“bent” – bad /
evil / wrong
Arbol hru – Sun’s
blood (gold)
? – Star’s milk
(silver?)
Hnakra-punt (pl.
hnakrapunti) – Hnakra slayer
Malacandra ruled
by Oyarsa, who lives in Meldilorn
Sentient,
non-embodied beings – Eldil (pl. Eldila)
Maleldil the
Young – Christ-like figure
The Old One –
lives with Maleldil the Young
Hrossa names
Hyoi – hross who
finds Ransom
Hnohra – older hross
who teaches Ransom the language
Hrikki – name of
a young hressni
Whin – Hyoi’s
friend and boat-mate
Hleri – Hyoi’s
wife
Hyahi – Hyoi’s
brother
Hnoh
Hnihi
Hlithnahi
Sorn names
Augray – main
Sorn who teaches Ransom
Arkal
Belmo
Falmay
Pfifltriggi
names
Kanakaberaka –
main Pfifltriggi who speaks with Ransom
Kalakaperi
Parakataru
Tafulakeruf
Firikitekila
And the
miscellaneous 12th century Platonist, Bernardus Silvestris
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