![]() ![]() It covers the whole cycle: the story of Uther Pendragon, Merlin and Nimue, the youth of Arthur and the sword in the stone, the establishment of the Round Table at Camelot, the story of Tristan and Isolde, the Fisher King, the quest of the Grail and the adventures of Gawain, Percival, Bors, Galahad, Lancelot and Guinevere, and finally the plots of Morgan Le Fay and Mordred, the battle of Camlann and the end of the fellowship. ![]() Lancelyn Green’s book, however, is not a complete redesign of the old tales: instead, it is a straightforward and condensed retelling of the Arthurian legends, intended for young readers who are, for the most part, unfamiliar with this vast body of literature. White’s The Once and Future King… Let’s say that the romances of chivalry were all the rage in the 1950s - just as dragons and magic fantasies have been all the rage since the 1990s, with George R.R. King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table was published a few years after World War II, around the same time as Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia and T. He is, nonetheless, one of the major popularisers of ancient myths and legends in English culture - Neil Gaiman recently acknowledged (in his introduction to Norse Mythology) that Lancelyn Green’s books profoundly influenced his early vocation as a writer. Roger Lancelyn Green may not be quite as famous as his teachers and fellow Oxfordians, C.S. ![]()
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