The Candle in the Wind

I think Arthur chose to prosecute Lancelot and Guenevere because he had made thoes rules. It was the fact that that law was what he had made. If it had been anyother people, he would have upheld the law just as he did with Lancelot and Guenevere. He couldn't play favorites. Its as if he were a policeman, he would have to uphold the law even if it meant giving in people he loved. But where as the police have a choice, it seemed that Arthur felt he didn't until Guenevere was actually marching to the stake. Arthur made the laws of chiverly come back, and because he believed in that he couldn't turn his back on his beliefs just to save his friends.


In my beliefs, the fall of Camelot was caused by revenge. For example, Pellinore killed ( By accident) The Okeny brother's father, in turn, they killed him. That need for revenge has been passed down, Finally ending up in the death of their mother, and Pellinor's son. The only reason that the line stopped was because Arthur managed to stop Pellinor's other son from killing the brothers. Then there was Mordred. He was a baby, for crying out loud, how could he remember the boat? The only reason that he had that grudge was because his mother hated Arthur, so she told him the story, which made him hate Arthur in turn. It was just this big long line of hate and grudges that ended in revenge.



I find Lancelot to be, still, interesting. Most people, when confronted with their life, would kill the person doing the confronting. But he held no grudge when poeple tried to kill him. Showing, that Arthurs table did help at least one person.

What I found interesting is that, Merlin was the person that started Arthur off on this whole king ship thing, and he was also the last person that he called out to. I wonder if it was just a hopeful thought that Merlin would help to bail him out.



I find the ending to be both depressing and hopeful. There is always the depressing part that people are fighting and dying, But there is also that hopeful part. Like Lancelot, he had chiverly so embeded in himself he would never strike a downed man, he was also probably a hero to many kids, who would follow in his foot steps and carry the chiverly on. There was also the little page boy, who would be able to tellt he true intentions of Arthur.




In my opinion of the book itself, there was a little too much detail. For example when we first meet Merlin, and go in his house. There was like three or four paragraphs of nothing but detail and I find that hard to read. All in all it was a rather good book.

The Ill- Made knight

I thought that Lancelot was interesting. He was ugly, number one. In most stories the 'hero' is the most handsome person that anyone has ever seen. In this case, I think it was more so we could see more of Lancelot's heart. If people in the story were completly into his looks, we'd never hear about anything else. By making him ugly, we get to hear more of what is going on in his head and his heart. Another thing that I found interesting, is that he could hurt people, and not feel bad, until he saw that he hurt them. I understand, I don't do it on a daily basis, but when I'm in a bad mood, I don't care how many insults or side comments I throw out, as long as it hurts someone. When I do hurt someone though, I feel horrible. It's a nice vent until someone gets hurt, but then you feel the need to make it up to them, like Lancelot did with Elaine.


Elaine was a little crazy, in my point of view. (She probably went a little mad in the boiling water.) I can see why she fell in love with Lancelot, I mean, he saved her from a big vat of water that was boiling her alive. ( It's a good thing she wasn't in a town of cannibals. haha.) But it's one thing to be in love, than to be obsessive about someone. In this case, it was almost obsessive. I say almost because, she was willing to let him go. If he came back she would be happy. ( what if part of the boiling water was that the person that pulled her out, she was to fall in love with? Didn't Morgause use that Spancel at the end of the last book?Is That why she used it?) I don't understand though, how she could hold on to this love so long. Lancelot left her for twenty years, and she still stayed. This I find amazing, and because of that, declare her mind addled with.


Guenevere was annoying. Making scenes for no reason. Okay, I'll admit, she had her moments, but when she wasn't having a moment, she was annoying. For example, when Lancelot was going to fight at the castle where Elaine was, she was going to make him stay, but changed her mind. What the heck. She caused poor Lancelot to have a mental break down, felt bad, and spent a fortune looking for him. What the heck. It actually kind of reminded me of Lancelot in a way, he hurt people, felt bad, made it up to them. But in Guenevere's case, she did it to the same person, over and over again, which made it more annoying then when Lancelot had his moments. It just makes me wonder what lengths the human heart will go to to find and keep love?


The Orkney family had it coming. They should have seen this coming. It was a shock that Agravaine murdered his own mother and Pellinor's son. I was furious that because Pellinor accidently murdered their father so they killed him. But this family was so messed up it wasn't even funny. ( All of the people that think their family is dysfunctional needs to read this book, the Orkney family beats us hands down.) I was happy though, that Gareth, at least had no part in the murder of his own blood. Made me see some hope in at least one of them. I do think that Agravaine and Mordred will cause much more trouble.



Arthur ignoring the love affair, was the best way to keep everyone happy. You see, Merlin warned Arthur that Guenevere was supposed to be with Lancelot. He was the only one that knew he could do nothing. If he had brought up the affair with Lance and Jenny, they would have felt bad, especially Lance, and Arthur wouldn't be happy, because he would lose Jenny, who he was rather fond of. So by keeping quiet and ignoring the triangle, he let Jenny and Lance be together, like fate wanted them to be, and he didnt have to upset the Kingdom, or the fates, and he got to tecnically keep Jenny.



Going more on the Spancel. I was making some lunch, and I was thinking about the Orkney family, and then it dawned on me. What if Morgause, being a witch and all, knew about Lancelot so to try to out the whole place in an uproar she used the Spancel to make Elaine fall in love with Lance. ( it was a good idea while I was writing it)

The Once and Future King - "The Queen of Air and Darkness".

The second book of The Once and Future King kind of baffled me. In the beginning I was thinking it was mostly going to be about Arthur and the war, but alot of it was Pellinore too! That was rather exciting if you ask me. Morgause, to me, seemed mentally unstable. It wasn't the fact that she boiled a cat alive, it was more her moods. Her mind changed so fast it sent my head spinning. For Example when her kids killled the unicorn for her, she barely noticed. When she did find out later, she whipped them. But later on in the story shes over come with love for her boys. Its like her meternal switch is broken, it flickers on and off. Its what we would call mentally unstable.

I agree and disagree with The Round Table. I agree that there should be honest people only fighting for the rights of others, but how do you know that they are truely honest. Its not like you could hook them up to a poloygraph test, and they can lie at the meeting when they tell of their adventures. What if they go around and dont know if they are interfearing for the good, but in their mind they think they are? Its a good idea, but flawed. I do think that thoes flaws can be fixed by taking the kids into the round table, but what about the other people that influance around them? I mean, my parents taught me not to swear, but the more I was around people swearing the more I started to swear. You could only surround those kids with people who live by the rules of the round table.


Pellinore and the Questing beast are the highlight of this reading in my perspective. I love them so much! I could just imagin whe King Pellinore got on the magic barge and they pulled out, the look on the Questing Beasts face. One thing that I found was that even though Pellinore was lovesick and everything, he has awesome friends. Alot of times when people are going through hard times, their friends just try to talk them through it. Not Sir Palomides and Sir Grummore , they built a beast costume, TWICE, just to help their friend along. I felt really bad when it back fired and then real Questing beast showed up.


The Orkney brothers were a bother. I wasn't exactly their fault, like when they beat the donkey, it was that they weren't taught anybetter. I felt horrid how they love their mother so much, and half the time they get no love in return, but still its their mother, theyll always love her until they know better. It kind of like when you kick a puppy (i haven't so this isn't from experience.) its always going to come back and lick your hand. The puppy knows no better, you are its master and you can do anything to it, it will always love you. Gareth I think is the smarter leader of the bunch really, he commands the attention when he talks and he doesn't like to be inturrupted like when he was telling the story in the beginning. Gawaine is next in the pecking order. The only reason he got the next spot is because he knew not to run his mouth and he had the rage in him to actually hurt someone. Agravaine is the last in the pecking order because he runs his mouth but has no way to defend himself. I also think that hes the one that has the least amount of hope to be taught, for lack of a better word. When they were hunting the unicorn, Gawaine and Gareth were going to back out because of the beauty of the animal, but Agravaine went on and killed it anyway. It seems to me that he cant be taught the value of life like Arthur was by Merlin.


I think that the Spancle was nasty, but interesting. The only interesting part of it is who is Morgause going to use it on?



The one last thing I want to say is that I'm rather upset that the Questing beast is no longer attached to Pellinore. I think it might be because he has found love. Maybe the Questing beast is there for people to love to chase but once the person chasing her falls in love she has to find someone else because the person chasing her no longer needs to love her. I love the Questing beast, Pellinore and the other knights so much its not even funny, they make this book worth wild .

The Once And Future King Book One

I really loved when Merlin swore, and the he ended up flying somewhere. That seems to be the most petty lesson that he taught Wart, but Ireally liked it. It was the lesson I remember the most, he was just like, and that should teach you not to curse. My favorite lesson with the animals was the badger. There was an important lesson to that. All living beings started out
the same, and just because man kind is "smarter" then the animals, dosen't mean we rule. It means we have the responsibility to protect the lessers.

With Kay and Arthur you see a really big diffrence. Kay seems to have more pressure on him, making him insecure and a bit bossy and 'above' Arthur. Arthur had no idea of his parantage and he thought that he would be spending the rest of his life carrying around Kay's things. Wart had no pressure on him to exceed at what he had to do in his life. I think thats also the reason why he was crying when he get the sword. It wasnt exactly happiness or releif that his brother wouldn't be bossing him, it was more that he now had to rule and he had the pressure on him now. I think it was also the people that he looked up to all of his life were now bowing down and looking up to him. It was just so overwhelming, so he burst into tears.


I looked up anachronisms in the dictionary and if i read it right it was like Merlin. He was in both the past and the future, not in the right order.

Pellinore and the Questing Beast were I'd say almost my favorite. They didn't realize what they had until they lost it. Pellinore didn't realize how much he cared for the Questing Beast until he found it in the bushes after the Hog hunt. The Questing Beast, I don't think, knew that he had to be the center of someones attention in order to survive. Its like when someone gives up food. The person withers away to nothing, like the Beast. I'm notsure if this makes sense,but the food goes bad, like Pellinore. Not like he went bad as in his morals or anything, more like he went bad as in he was losing his touch, his questing touch.


One thing that I thoguht was funny was that Arthur was introduced by Kay as Wart, but the narrator kept it going, he was known as Wart. It struck me as a riot.

Le Morte d' Arthur

As I read the packet of Le Morte d' Arthur, I wasn't so happy with it a first. It seemed to be boring, and who would trust a wizard to take their son, even if he did see the future? I was rather worried about what kind of read this was going to be, but once Arthur pulled the sword out of the stone, I started to enjoy the story.

Thomas Malory, the author, didnt really go into detail much, but I liked that. It gave me a chance to fill in the blanks. I choose what Morgan Le Fay looks like and how Sir Launcelot looks with helmet hair. I think thats what really helped me to start to enjoy reading what I read. When other authors fill in the blank with all sorts of detail , to me, it is over whelming. This was a nice change.



King Arthur to me seemed, kind of like a do-gooder. He wants that perfect kingdom, but he also wants whatever he fancys, which makes him seem stuck up almost. For example when Merlin tells him that Gwynevere is destined to be with Sir Launcelot, he ignores that and marries her anyway.


Sir Launcelot was like a little kid. He wanted adventure and it was almost like he went looking for trouble. For example, at first he seemed to be just looking for adventure and the thrill of it, but later on he seemed to enjoy what the great feats were giving him for a name. When he came across Sir Kay, he did a noble thing by crawling out of the window to save his friend. When Launcelot came across the other knights, I dont understand why he didn't just say that it was him and not Sir Kay to save his friends the hurt of defeat.


Sir Modred had an arrogance about him. He already had power, that was given to him by Arthur, but he still had to go and overtake the throne and marry the queen. Also, just because the Archbishop tried to save his soul, he was going to assassinate him.


I believe that Sir Launcelot is a better man then Arthur. Arthur as king had the responsibility to be able to make up his own mind and not be swayed by others. But by letting himself be convinced by his nephew to go to war with Launcelot, he lost a really good knight that would have helped him defeat Modred. Launcelot was willing to forgive Arthur, making him a better man,it was still too late.