Tolkien'a "Fall of Arthur" to be published: confirmed

[radagastly]

This is terrific!

I love the brief snippet davem's linked article provides that describes Mordred:

'His bed was barren; there black phantoms
of desire unsated and savage fury
in his brain brooded till bleak morning.'

What a villain!

I can hardly wait 'til spring!

[Lalwendë]

I take umbrage with John Garth over this though: "...snippets published so far are encouraging, showing him in darkly evocative mode writing about one of the great English villains, Mordred..."

English? Does he not mean British? 'English' came in with the Saxons

Originally Posted by William Cloud Hicklin

So, yes, these would be fully Christian--as were ALL the Arthurian legends; the very earliest documents were written by monks, and after all represented the perspective of the Romanized and thus Christian Britons against the pagan Saxons.

Romanised as in having just been part of the Roman empire or as in following the Roman church? Because at the time that Arthur is supposed to have been active and when the earliest texts such as the Y Gododdin were being written, then the Christian church was more Celtic Christian, especially in more western areas which is overwhelmingly the area associated with Arthur (and where many of those early texts were produced), places such as Cornwall, Wales, Galloway, Lancashire and Somerset.

I'm itching to see what he has made of the story. Having an evil Mordred isn't promising, though follows what Geoffrey of Monmouth started, and I'll be interested where he 'places' his version of Arthur geographically.