Arthurian Legends

Arthur and Ygraine

me: all arthurian retellings are valid, yay for more arthurian content

also me: why do i have to dodge all this fate porn in the mordred tag

allpurposenemesis:

It happens

kristinkaalol:

Gawain

yasminanoradraw:

Inktober Day 9 – The King

gemstar42:

Why hasn’t anyone made an anime adaptation of arthurian legends?

I mean lancelot is like, this totally unbeatable guy, gawain has that power where his strength increases as the sun rises. Arthur is this special chosen king. They totally sound like protaganists in a shounen anime.

Story arcs in le morte d’arthur include fights, tests, tournaments, etc. All building toward an ultimate final battle

Where’s my legends of king Arthur and his knights anime?

There’s actually two anime adaptations!

Entaku no Kishi Monogatari Moero Arthur and the sequel Moero Arthur: Hakuba no Oji

More if you count the Fate universe anime!

prince-bath-matt:

Nothing is stopping me from writing a new Arthurian myth and calling it canon and I have never felt so powerful

nadiea:

dramatic arthuriana retellings are good and all but i really just want a sitcom

yes, please!

1/2 Arthur definitely turned a blind eye to his wife’s affair. The reason for this is that, as the king’s wife, Guenivere is committing high treason by having an affair, and Arthur acknowledging it happening means that she will die. (It doesn’t matter that she’s barren, that’s the nature of the law.) This is why I personally find Arthur/Guenivere a more tragic love story than Guenivere/Lancelot.

2/2 Arthur and Guenivere aren’t a Forbidden Love story, they’re a Failed Love story. How can they remedy the situation? They cannot get divorced, or rekindle their romance, or even start a threesome. So the sitch sits and festers until Mordred exploits it as his scheme to usurp the throne.

Mmmmm I mean. I don’t think there’s a “reason”. Do you mean in Monmouth? Because in that case Arthur doesn’t turn a blind eye to the affair of Mordred and Guinevere at all, he is quite mad.

If you mean in Malory, I don’t remember anything about Arthur knowing before Agravaine and Mordred told him.

The idea that Arthur pretends to not see is very compelling and it is a canon that has been used in basically all modern movies and a lot of modern novels.
About the idea of a Failed Love story… if Guinevere loves Lancelot and Arthur loves Guinevere, that’s still a love triangle, in my opinion… if someone loves a person but they don’t love them back, it’s not a failed love story, it’s unrequired love (failed love story presumes that the other person would have fallen in love with them, somehow, eventually).