Roger Lancelyn Green’s King Arthur

Sorry for the late post--it just didn't sit right to publish an episode on the most iconic British monarch during my country's Independence Day celebration. Also, there were hot dogs.

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Friend of the show Eric Geddes returns to talk about Lewis' friend and student, Roger Lancelyn Green, who was best known for the many children's books he wrote about myths and legends, many of which remain standard.

After briefly discussing Green's friendship with Lewis, we talk about Green's King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table, which Lewis called "better than Malory," before adding, "well, not really, but you know what I mean."

High praise indeed!

Topics and works discussed include:

• Roger Lancelyn Green's biography
• His friendship with Lewis
• Some of his best-known works.
• Lewis' Discarded Image, dedicated to Green
• Tolkien's annoyance with Narnia, revisited
• Diana Glyer's The Company They Keep
• The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, ed. by Walter Hooper
• Sir Thomas Malory versus Roger Lancelyn Green...
• ...versus Dave Pilkey (or, Pipkin's unhinged "get-off-my-lawn" rant about kids' books these days)
• The two swords of Arthur
• Monty Python, of course
• Odds Bodkin's Perceval
• Chretien de Troyes versus Roger Lancelyn Green
• The Holy Grail
• Galahad versus Perceval
• When the holy and the fairy converge
• Is it a foregone conclusion that Camelot (and all civilizations) would fail--and is it one that a Christian is obliged to make?

Digressive and rambling, as usual, but come along for the ride and you'll probably have fun.

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There will be more on King Arthur (as written by Tolkien) very soon. Thanks for listening!