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This is a terribly interesting thread. I don't have anything to contribute that you haven't already covered in much greater detail, but I wanted to say thanks for doing it. Looking forward to you reaching Marion Zimmer Bradley. I've got such a love/hate relationship with Mists of Avalon.
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Put me down as another who loved TOaFK, and will defend it as being every bit as much a valid Arthurian legend as Le Morte d'Arthur.  Now, when it comes to the delightfully bonkers theory that Jeeves from the Jeeves & Wooster stories is T.H. White's Merlin... Toph Bei Fong fucked around with this message at 23:06 on Mar 26, 2014 |
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Wales: The Mabinogion If you're looking for a pretty faithful modern retelling of these stories, Evangeline Walton wrote a fantastic tetralogy that's (in my opinion) been ignored and overlooked for way too long. She's an amazing fantasy writer that just never got the recognition of her contemporaries, had a brief renaissance in the 70s when Ballantine wanted more fantasy to publish after Lord of the Rings and Gormenghast, but has since kinda fallen off the radar again. With the Mabinogion, people always recommend Lloyd Alexander, and for good reason because his books are very good, but he changed so much from the original tales that they rather quickly stop being the Mabinogion. But if you want to know what the Welsh King Arthur would have been like, but without struggling through ancient poetry, Walton's got you hooked up. 
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