"Your favourite character from Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur ?" Topic

I really had to think about this one ..but I have to say my favourite is Gawain.

I'll go with Crocodile Dundee.

Allen

so that's The Black Knight for you

Could never get into it…Mind you if Merlin is in it and he's anything like the character in Excalibur I will go with him…

Gaerth

I like the brothers Lucan and Bedivier

I'd think my choice would be rather obvious.

Sir Robin the – not – quite – so – brave – as – Sir Lancelot, who had nearly fought the Dragon of Angnor, who had nearly stood up to the vicious Chicken of Bristol, and who had personally wet himself at the Battle of Badon Hill

I rather like Bors as well though my choice no doubt is coloured by T.H. White

Gawain here too.

The Knights Who Say "Niiiii".

I've always liked Arthur himself. Although it doesn't come out so much in Malory he is the ultimate tragic hero. Trapped by going against what he wants to do by his own rules, pressure from others and yet torn to do it by his own anguish and anger, he has to tear apart what he spent his lifetime creating in an almost automaton-like walk to his own doom.

for those with an interest..
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this sort of thing
Lamorak(e) de Galis, Sir – son of King Pellinore, brother of Aglovale, Dornar & Percivale, half brother to Tor. Red shield. Good fighter, & friend of Launcelot & Tristram. Slain by Gawaine for shagging his mum.

Dinadan. The only character in the book who isn't a psychopath.

On my list of books to read before I die.

That's a long list.

And the aptly named "Sir Not Appearing In This Film"

Why to quote only male characters?

not limited to male characters at all..open to both sexes..and there is a very interesting interpretation of Dinadan at
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Let's see, been so long since I read it; getting all the characters mixed up with other versions. Nope, none of the "Le Morte d'Arthur" characters stand out this long after.

But taking the whole shared mythos, on balance, my favorites are Morgan leFaye, Merlin and Mordred. I also enjoy Pellinor and Parsifal….

Gawain & Bedivere for me.

Gareth and Gawaine, the best of the Orkney bros.
I always preferred reading "Sir Gawaine & the Green Knight" to "Le Morte d'Arthur".

I'll just be honest and admit to having never read Le Mort D'Athur…

Morte was not a bad character

No question, Sir Bruce sans Pitie. Mostly comic relief, led a long if unsuccessful guerilla war against Arthur's peace and justice movement. Best scene, Bruce is fleeing one of the Knights, runs into another batch of same, cries out "I'm being pursued by Sir Bruce sans Pitie!" and makes his escape while the two groups thump each other by mistake.

Well huscarle it was a lot shorter..

Bedivere

Morgan le Fay -with her two sisters, so similar to her they can be three aspects of the same person: it's not by laziness that they are merged in several renditions. Maybe an echo of the 'Triple Goddess' and the model of Macbeth's 3 witches / 'Weird Sisters'?

Galahad

The hot chick… which one was she, now?

I've just finished reading it in the original Caxton text for the first time and it is wonderful. My favourite character is probably Gareth, although the early adventures of Galahad are also gripping.

it is good isn't.. my "Orgulus" cyber identity came from my reading..

The hot chick… which one was she, now?

Indeed?
This one was not in Malory YouTube link

Sir Not-Appearing-in-this Film.

Sir Gareth at the moment, if only because, according to one of my students, he followed a 'chivalric cod'.

Let's see… a cuckolded king, an adulterous wife, a faithless knight (and friend)… wait, I'm sorry, what exactly are the merits of this tale again?

Er cause its a tale about how people are and how they try to come to terms with it…

I'm sorry, what exactly are the merits of this tale again?

I suppose you greatly value Little House on the Prairie?

Indeed Arthur is more a pawn of Destiny than a 'hero', but it's a common point of most great literary tragedies.

Besides, by contrast with syrupy modern pastiches such as 'The Lord of the Rings', characters have a real depth, they are full and contradictions and suffer, they are not 2D 'all white or all black' stereotypes.

What?
Who?
Also, what?!?!
Hey, here's a thought: Don't presume to "suppose" what I value without any ebidence whatsiever, and I will extend you the same courtesy.
Sound fair? Goody!
And who in blazes said anything about "Lord of the Rings"?!

I certainly didn't

there there dasher,,you did poke your head over the parapet..

Indeed you did… stick your head up… expect it to get shot at and don't be surprised by that.

The Green Knight was my fave.

Critterement

SMC1

I don't stick my head over parapets; I stand up on them and wave the flag of my opinion, just the same as everyone else.
For that reason, I do not mind getting shot at, but I do expect the shots to make sense, not just be a silly fusillade of groundless conclusion-jumping.

a silly fusillade of groundless conclusion-jumping.

Such would be, for instance, inferences about a private life making one specially touchy about the marital fate of Arthur and the so-called 'betrayal' of his wife and best friend: nobody did that!

Then, if one thinks about the likely pre-Christian form of the (consummated or not, it does not matter) 'romance' between Guenever and Lancelot and the nature of their relation with Arthur, it goes deeper than a mere bedding story.

And Arthur is less a pawn than Siegfried (and Brünnhilde)…