I already knew that to question him was useless. (Medraut never asked or answered questions.) His friendliness was a sham. Slim, white-skinned, agile, he was neat-eyed thief loving Mercury using mischievous charm as a weapon. To love Medraut, to be loved by him might be deadly though, with unwonted imprudence, I knew I would keep by him.

Lancelot meeting Mordred.

from “Lancelot” (Peter Vansittart)

73/100 arthurian random quotes

Hi! I hope this question won’t bother you, because I think you may get it quite often, but would you be so kind and recommend me your favourite arthurian book and movies? I’ve already read “The Mists of Avalon” and I loved it, but i really would like to read more. I’m not as much Arthurian geek as I would like myself to be. And also, it would be very nice if in some of those books would be more of Galahad and Mordred together, I love them so much ;w; Thank you in advance!

lucrezianoin:

Hello! It doesn’t bother me at all! I love suggesting books and talking about books and movies I love, so thank you! (also I rated here the books I’ve read or on goodreads)

Ohh there’s always time in the future for reading arthuriana (sort of XD well, slowly, as I am doing in this period). Unfortunately there are not a lot of books where Galahad and Mordred interact and just in a few where they interact in a positive way:

  • a short story of “Doom of Camelot” edited by James Lowder (positive interactions)
  • “Book of Mordred” by Peter Hanratty, where the interactions are not very positive
  • “A Prince in Camelot” by Courtway Jones, where they interact a couple of times but always one against the other
  • They also interact very briefly in “Excalibur!” by Gil Kane
  • “Believe” by Victoria Alexander, which is an harlequin novel and Mordred is the villain while Galahad is the hot hero
  • “Blessed Bastard” by Lehmann but they interact only very briefly
  • “Mists of Manhattan” well, not a very good book but they interact and are allies

About my favourite books, I absolutely love:

  • “Idylls of the Queen” by Phyllis Ann Karr, which is a mystery story where Kay and Mordred has to find a murderer
  • “The Winter Prince” by Elizabeth Wein, which is all about Mordred and words are not enough to describe its wonderfulness
  • “Exiled from Camelot” by Cherith Baldry, lovely Kay, bromance everywhere and very Malory-like, with magic and adventures
  • Persia Wolley’s Guinevere trilogy, my favorite Guinevere trilogy mostly because of how Mordred is written and the fact that the author uses a lot of less known stories and characters
  • “I am Morgan le Fay” by Nancy Springer, which is a pre-Camelot story of Morgana
  • “Here Lies Arthur” by Reeve, with cruel realistic Arthur, mostly about the lady of the lake and Percival
  • “Corbenic” by Catherine Fisher, modern times quest for the Grail
  • “The Once and Future King” (White)
  • The Squire’s Tales series by Gerald Morris

and I also like these ones A LOT:

  • “The Road to Avalon” (Joan Wolf)
  • “Gawain” (Gwen Rowley)
  • “The Book of Mordred” (Vivian Valde)
  • “The Pendragon” (Catherine Christian)
  • “The Great Captains” (Treece)
  • Sharan Newman’s Guinevere series
  • “Firelord” (Parke Godwin)
  • “Sword at Sunset” (Sutcliff)
  • Generally I love also collections of stories like Mike Ashley’s ones, especially the Knights of the Round Table one, and “The Doom of Camelot” and “Invitation to Camelot”

About movies, I admit I like everything, the trashier the better, but I am particularly fond of:

  • Monty Python and the Holy Grail (which is without any doubt the best arthurian movie)
  • Camelot musical (the most famous version is the 1967 one)
  • Guinevere (1994)
  • Mists of Avalon (I actually admit I preferred the miniseries to the book)
  • Connecticut Yankee movies are always fun, especially the 1989 one and A Young Connecticut and A Knight in Camelot
  • The Legend of the KIng (actually a tv show, 1979)
  • Excalibur Kid
  • Arthur & Merlin (2015)
  • Merlin 1998
  • Arthur of teh Britons (series)
  • Kaamelott (a parody series)
  • Merlin and the Book of Beasts
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