A Heroic World Breaking at the Seams The Fall of Arthur is one of Tolkien’s most revealing unfinished works: a poem that feels at once ancient and strangely new, as though an Old English singer had wandered into the ruins of Camelot. Christopher Tolkien’s editorial labor makes the fragment legible as both a literary artifact … Continue reading T.A.E.’s Book Review – The Fall of Arthur by Christopher & J.R.R. Tolkien
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Le Morte d’Arthur by Thomas Malory
Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur is less a single book than a long, capacious conversation with the Middle Ages: a compendium of romances, chronicles, saints’ lives and courtly songs that, in a single stroke, made the Arthurian past into England’s founding myth. It is at once encyclopedic and intimate — a work that gathers tradition … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Le Morte d’Arthur by Thomas Malory