A new re-imagining of the Arthurian legend is in the works by director Guy Ritchie. Though the film has a release date of Summer 2016, Entertainment Weekly recently gave us a first look into Charlie Hunnam (Sons of Anarchy) as the legendary King Arthur. The film pulls inspiration mostly from Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte D’Arthur but will ...
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ABC’s “Once Upon a Time” Heading to Camelot
Once Upon a Time Heading to Camelot. By David Glenn As many of you know, on the finale for season four of Once Upon a Time to save Rumplestiltskin and Regina from the darkness that is the Dark One Emma Swan sacrificed herself, effectively becoming the new Dark One as the dagger revealed. However hope is not lost. The Apprentice ...
Read More »Watch the new ARTHUR & MERLIN movie NOW on Legendarium Media!
Legendarium Media is proud to present the online release of ARTHUR & MERLIN, a Movieworks production directed by Marco van Belle, starring Kirk Barker as Arthur and Stefan Butler as Merlin. Synopsis In dark ages Britain, a time of myth and magic, a powerful druid is bent on destroying the Celtic people. Arthur, a banished warrior, and Merlin, a hermit ...
Read More »ARTHUR & MERLIN film releasing NEXT week on Legendarium!
UPDATE (April 17th, 2015) – Movieworks has decided to delay the film’s release until next week to make sure that all of the affiliate releasing partners in the U.S. and U.K. are able to release simultaneously. Sorry for the delay! Legendarium Media is excited to announce a new partnership with Sheffield-based independent production company, Movieworks, for the innovative release of ...
Read More »“Grail Lore” Literature: The High Book of the Grail, Perlesvaus – A Review
The High Book of the Grail, Perlesvaus – A Review by Josh Radke Arthurian literature and Grail lore has been a popular topic of literary movements and studies since the first stories were published in the late 12th century. Two of my favourite authors, C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams, were fanboys of this literature. Lewis paid brief homage to it ...
Read More »Arthurian Geographies in Tolkien, Williams, and Lewis
Sorina Higgins, writer, English teacher, and Inklings scholar, gave a lecture at the New York C.S. Lewis Society about The Fall of Arthur and an imaginary, composite, Inklings Arthuriad. The lecture is below. You can also read a summary of the lecture at her blog. Find Sorina Higgins’ scholarly work on Charles Williams, one of the Inklings, at The Oddest Inkling. — victorialadybug (V. ...
Read More »Fantasy Poetry: Arthurian Legend
Arthur’s Harrowing What would I not give, To hold you here, And rejoice in a moment’s, Limitless strength? What would I not do, To carry you home, And dispel the shadows, Hateful stain? What would I not say, To extend my soul, Unburdened by circumstance’s, Feeble rage? What would I not build, To pay homage to, The days we cherished, ...
Read More »The Burial of Guinevere
The Burial of Guinevere by John Evans With spade in hand, And heart in mind, I rend the goodly earth, Bent over double like a toothless beggar, Dressed in my old lord’s male. The harvest moon shines down on me, And those who share my task, Recalling her ghost from heaven’s field, Far above life’s torment. Her body lies near ...
Read More »Call For Papers: The Inklings and King Arthur
From Sørina Higgins of The Oddest Inkling – The recent publication of The Fall of Arthur, an unfinished poem by J.R.R. Tolkien, revealed a startling aspect of the legendarium. The key is found in notes Tolkien left about how he intended the fragmentary Fall of Arthur to continue (included in Christopher Tolkien’s editorial matter). After Arthur was carried away for ...
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