Celebrating King Arthur on Tolkien Reading Day

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: black; background: white;">Saddle up and join the Round Table as Mythmakers embarks on a journey through some of the most famous retellings of King Arthur in celebration of Tolkien Reading Day. </span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Open Sans';">Which author started the ball rolling, and who poetically kicked it on into the 19th century? <span style="color: black; background: white;">Where do the traces of these tales </span>become most apparent <span style="color: black; background: white;">in the works of Tolkien and C.S. Lewis? And who has continued the Arthurian tradition into modern times?<br><br>Finally, we turn to the screen&mdash;what is the most successful adaptation of them all? Tune in to see if you agree with our pick!<br><br>(00:00) Tolkien Reading Day and the Power of Arthur<br data-start="3439" data-end="3442">(03:09) Malory and the Rise of Arthur in Print<br data-start="3488" data-end="3491">(05:26) Arthur Pulls the Sword from the Stone<br data-start="3536" data-end="3539">(09:24) Keats and the Melancholy of Arthur<br data-start="3581" data-end="3584">(12:08) Tennyson, Avalon, and Echoes in Tolkien<br data-start="3631" data-end="3634">(15:15) William Morris and Arthur&rsquo;s Expanding World<br data-start="3685" data-end="3688">(16:52) T.S. Eliot, Charles Williams, and the Modern Grail<br data-start="3746" data-end="3749">(22:22) Film, Comedy, and Reinventing Arthur<br data-start="3793" data-end="3796">(23:00) Tolkien and Lewis Through an Arthurian Lens<br data-start="3847" data-end="3850">(27:02) Modern Retellings and Julia Golding&rsquo;s Own Arthur Stories<br data-start="3914" data-end="3917">(29:12) Why BBC&rsquo;s Merlin Works So Well<br data-start="3955" data-end="3958">(30:43) Reading Arthur to Better Understand Tolkien<br><br></span></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; background: white;">For more information on the Oxford Centre for Fantasy, our writing courses, and to check out our awesome social media content visit:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; background: white;">Website: </span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; background: white;"><a href="https://centre4fantasy.com/website">https://centre4fantasy.com/website</a></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; background: white;">&nbsp;<br></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; background: white;">Instagram: </span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; background: white;"><a href="https://centre4fantasy.com/Instagram">https://centre4fantasy.com/Instagram</a></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; background: white;">&nbsp;<br></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; background: white;">Facebook: </span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; background: white;"><a href="https://centre4fantasy.com/Facebook">https://centre4fantasy.com/Facebook</a></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; background: white;">&nbsp;<br></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; background: white;">TikTok: </span><a href="https://centre4fantasy.com/tiktok"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; background: white;">https://centre4fantasy.com/tiktok</span></a></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>