DQ and Earthsea

["jcorey30" <jcorey30@yahoo.com>]

In a fit of nostalgia, recently read "A Wizard of Earthsea".  And I 
was stuck by the similarities between the magic in that book, and the 
College of Naming incantations.  I am sure i am not the first person 
to point this out.  In fact, I am fairly certain Naming is directly 
influenced by that book.  I have been thinking about it ever since... 
and I had a bunch of questions.

- How does Rune Magic fit in with Naming?  it seems similar interms 
of method, but has different results.  
- has anyone ever run an Earthsea campaign?
- It occurs to me that you could run such a campaign, without 
excluding all other colleges of magic.  One way to do it might be to 
have a word where members of Colleges (let's say elementals for 
example) specialize in the names of certain things, like fire.  Then 
Naming would sort of become an "archmage" branch of magic.

Any thoughts?