Talk:King Arthur in various media

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[edit] Extremely Inventive?

"[Bradshaw's Down the Long wind trilogy] is an extremely inventive reinterpretation of the legend." It is really, really good (it was me who originally wrote the article about Bradshaw), but "extremely inventive" fails to be objective. What the trilogy does is it take the Arthurian legend and tries to strip it back to its Celtic roots, by removing anachronisms. I'm not sure how the entry should be re-worded, but the current wording is definitely unacceptable. --Peter Knutsen 09:33, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Comparisons

I know that the article is intended as an exhaustive list of Arthurian adaptations, but it gives no indications of which are the successful or influential ones: for starters, a good list would probably be Malory, Idylls of the King, Twain's satire, and White's ONCE AND FUTURE KING. CharlesTheBold 04:54, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

I don't know if we can give a list of the most successful and influential ones. Who's to judge? And some are more influential in other languages than in English. Geoffrey of Monmouth's Latin Historia introduced Arthur to the outside world, while in French the Tristan poems of Beroul and Thomas of Britain were the earliest versions of what became an incredibly popular story, and the Lancelot-Grail Cycle served as the basis for all later cyclical versions (and some that are independant). Even in English, some works, like Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, were not terribly influential at the time they were written, but have come to be regarded as classics. Others, like The Fairie Queene, were very successful and influential, but not particularly influential on later Arthurian works.--Cúchullain t/c 06:39, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] British TV series

Some years ago, PBS's Once Upon a Classic series aired a British TV series regarding King Arthur. I don't know if it's on this page in some other context or not. John Carter 22:22, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Last KoTR knight Arthur?

"Final Fantasy VII the final and greatest summon materia is "Knights of the Round" which has 12 knights striking an enemy with the last knight obviously being King Arthur through his extended entrance and grander appearance."

I read that this was Mordred once on the Final Fantasy Compendium forums. Can we be sure it's really Arthur? 66.63.86.156 18:52, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Arthur-and-the-Square-Knights.jpg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 08:12, 2 January 2008 (UTC)