Merlin THE Merlin
Folklore and Fairy Tales, my pet group on Ravelry, is doing "Camelot" as the Read-and-Knit-Along for the summer.
I must confess to something terrible: Arthuriana has never interested me much.
Not quite sure why that is!
My first exposure was The Sword and the Stone book of The Once and Future King (my mom discouraged me from reading the rest, and I was perfectly happy with the first part) and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Both of which I liked.
Could be these sarcastic treatments had me skip over the usual stage of infatuation, so I can't get back again.
Also he idea of a love triangle that ends badly is a turn-off for me, I generally like things to be witty rather than dramatic, and like heroes and heroines who are in the middle of learning how to do stuff. After Arthur grows up, who cares?
The exception to this would be...Merlin. I love him, I'm fascinated by him. My reverse-cougar gets all flirty with the hard-won-wisdom elder types. No one yet has read a good portion of my "body of work", but if they did...it would become patently obvious.
No, even just a handful will suffice.
sounis ians, remember the Magus? Yes.
Anyway. Am I missing something?
Am I completely right, because Merlin is the most rawksome, yesyesyes?
I must confess to something terrible: Arthuriana has never interested me much.
Not quite sure why that is!
My first exposure was The Sword and the Stone book of The Once and Future King (my mom discouraged me from reading the rest, and I was perfectly happy with the first part) and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Both of which I liked.
Could be these sarcastic treatments had me skip over the usual stage of infatuation, so I can't get back again.
Also he idea of a love triangle that ends badly is a turn-off for me, I generally like things to be witty rather than dramatic, and like heroes and heroines who are in the middle of learning how to do stuff. After Arthur grows up, who cares?
The exception to this would be...Merlin. I love him, I'm fascinated by him. My reverse-cougar gets all flirty with the hard-won-wisdom elder types. No one yet has read a good portion of my "body of work", but if they did...it would become patently obvious.
No, even just a handful will suffice.
sounis ians, remember the Magus? Yes.
Anyway. Am I missing something?
Am I completely right, because Merlin is the most rawksome, yesyesyes?