King Arthur

durinsbane2244 · 05-03-2005, 09:07 PM

Does anyone else here enjoy Arthurian Legend books? I do. I saw a Gawain and the Green Knight. Tell some favorites so i can read them and favorite knights.

Spock · 05-03-2005, 09:37 PM

..my weakness, I've an "alert on Amazon and B & N" for anything with Merlin or Arthur when published. Years ago I reasearched them for over three years and planned and executed my quest in the UK, Cornwall area. I got very positive physci feedback and the three week investigation, for me, was confirming, illuminating and satisfying.

Rosie Gamgee · 05-04-2005, 09:55 AM

I love almost anything featuring swords and knights and damsels in distress. I suppose it sprang from a love of poetry; I've loved Tennyson's poem The Lady of Shalott for-almost-ever. I found a book with this poem in it along with some of Tennyson's Idylls of the King. If you like poetry at all, I would definitely recommend the Idylls. Terriffic stuff on Arthurian legends and based upon Sir Thomas Mallory's Morte d'Arthur.

Spock · 05-04-2005, 10:30 AM

Indeed, Rosie, I am familiar with all those. They're great, IMO.

inked · 05-04-2005, 10:42 AM

Since we have such Arthurian enjoyment obvious here, would any of you care to comment on the Arthurian themes and usages in Harry Potter by JK Rowling?

Spock · 05-04-2005, 11:20 AM

Well it would fall under this title but perhaps a new thread might make the subject matter more clear. If you want to start another thread, go ahead, then let me know and I'll close this one.

05-03-2005, 09:07 PM	#1
durinsbane2244 Dreamweaver Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The Misty Mountains, where the spirits go... Posts: 3,560	King Arthur Does anyone else here enjoy Arthurian Legend books? I do. I saw a Gawain and the Green Knight. Tell some favorites so i can read them and favorite knights. __________________ Lord, what fools these mortals be! ---------------- We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems. ---------------- Shanti, shanti, shantih...

05-03-2005, 09:37 PM	#2
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	..my weakness, I've an "alert on Amazon and B & N" for anything with Merlin or Arthur when published. Years ago I reasearched them for over three years and planned and executed my quest in the UK, Cornwall area. I got very positive physci feedback and the three week investigation, for me, was confirming, illuminating and satisfying. __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

05-04-2005, 09:55 AM	#3
Rosie Gamgee The Lovely Hobbit-Lass Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Bounded in a nut-shell Posts: 1,593	I love almost anything featuring swords and knights and damsels in distress. I suppose it sprang from a love of poetry; I've loved Tennyson's poem The Lady of Shalott for-almost-ever. I found a book with this poem in it along with some of Tennyson's Idylls of the King. If you like poetry at all, I would definitely recommend the Idylls. Terriffic stuff on Arthurian legends and based upon Sir Thomas Mallory's Morte d'Arthur. __________________ It's New Years Day, just like the day before; Same old skies of grey, same empty bottles on the floor. Another year's gone by, and I was thinking once again, How can I take this losing hand and somehow win? Just give me One Good Year To get my feet back on the ground. I've been chasing grace; Grace ain't so easily found One bad hand can devil a man, chase him and carry him down. I've got to get out of here, just give me One Good Year!

05-04-2005, 10:30 AM	#4
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	Indeed, Rosie, I am familiar with all those. They're great, IMO. __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

05-04-2005, 10:42 AM	#5
inked Elf Lord Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: sikeston, MO, usa, earth, sol Posts: 3,114	Since we have such Arthurian enjoyment obvious here, would any of you care to comment on the Arthurian themes and usages in Harry Potter by JK Rowling? __________________ Inked "Aslan is not a tame lion." CSL/LWW "The new school [acts] as if it required...courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that requires real courage to say, and that is a truism." GK Chesterton "And there is always the danger of allowing people to suppose that our modern times are so wholly unlike any other times that the fundamental facts about man's nature have wholly changed with changing circumstances." Dorothy L. Sayers, 1 Sept. 1941

05-04-2005, 11:20 AM	#6
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	Well it would fall under this title but perhaps a new thread might make the subject matter more clear. If you want to start another thread, go ahead, then let me know and I'll close this one. __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

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