* In 2021, longtime Dune audiobook narrator Scott Brick told me that the name Harkonnen is the “bane of [his] existence,” saying, “Even after narrating over twenty Dune books, Lynch’s pronunciation is so engraved in my brain that I still screw up sometimes when I read it aloud.” For what it’s worth, Herbert went on record at least once saying fans are free to say the names however they want. He just had his preferences.