Comments on: for Merry – more added!! http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2008/11/12/for-merry-2/ The life and education of two growing beans - our 10th year of blogging Tue, 25 Mar 2025 09:18:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.34 By: mamacrow http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2008/11/12/for-merry-2/#comment-6317 Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:24:59 +0000 http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/?p=2458#comment-6317 mary stewart did an AWESOME merlin trilogy. also, can I mention T H White? (sword in the stone was the first.) I know they’re shamelessly romantic and rosey glasses’ed about the era but I really love ‘em…

alan garner – awesome, though my fave was the Weird STone of Brisingham, and loved the dark is rising, particularly The Green Witch.

]]> By: HHaricot http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2008/11/12/for-merry-2/#comment-6316 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:34:13 +0000 http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/?p=2458#comment-6316 I always fancied adding taliesin to a name – but never got the chance!
and i knew you would have some lovely extra ideas!!

]]> By: Jan http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2008/11/12/for-merry-2/#comment-6315 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:32:46 +0000 http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/?p=2458#comment-6315 We liked the Pendragon books too. One of Jasper’s middle names is Taliesin.

]]> By: Jan http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2008/11/12/for-merry-2/#comment-6314 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:32:14 +0000 http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/?p=2458#comment-6314 Rosemary Sutliffe has done an Arthur trilogy which is, as yet, unread on our shelf. Also Kevin Crossley Holland has written a trilogy, beginning with The Seeing Stone, I believe, which features the mythic Merlin, who features in the life of a young lord in the 12th century who finds his life paralleling that of the earlier Arthur. I read those and enjoyed them, though they are not directly Arthurian

]]> By: tbird http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2008/11/12/for-merry-2/#comment-6313 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:14:32 +0000 http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/?p=2458#comment-6313 I liked teh Pendragon books! I’ve resigned myself to the fact that Merlin is a good bit of Saturday night TV and forget that it’s nothing like every other version of the myth…..

]]> By: Jax http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2008/11/12/for-merry-2/#comment-6312 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:26:20 +0000 http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/?p=2458#comment-6312 you haven’t mentioned the Mary Stewart set, granted more around Merlin than Arthur, but particular favourites with me.

]]> By: HHaricot http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2008/11/12/for-merry-2/#comment-6311 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:46:35 +0000 http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/?p=2458#comment-6311 i do remember the adaption – i haven’t had the strength to read the book since!! not owls but flowers though – so maybe one day…

]]> By: Alison http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2008/11/12/for-merry-2/#comment-6310 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:39:06 +0000 http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/?p=2458#comment-6310 Violet’s got Philip Reeve’s Here Lies Arthur, but I haven’t read it. He’s very good though.

]]> By: Allie http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2008/11/12/for-merry-2/#comment-6309 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:14:09 +0000 http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/?p=2458#comment-6309 Do you remember a 1970s tv adaptation of the owl service? It was terrifying!

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