The Crystal Cave is Merlin’s story, Arthur does not even make an appearance. This is the man who helped create Arthur.
This Merlin is not the wily old magician who plays a part in the myth of Arthur.
As far as I am concerned it is the ne plus ultra of the pantheon of Arthurian legend retelling. Stewart wrote over the course of almost two decades. The Crystal Cave is the first of three books focusing on Merlin, and part of a larger series on King Arthur that Ms. I am not sure who thought it was a good idea to have plastic-faced Miranda Richardson’s Queen Mab “create” Merlin to bring back the old ways or to have ridiculous CGI fairies flitting around, but watching it made me search for my well-thumbed copy of The Crystal Cave, by Mary Stewart.
The other night I accidentally started watching Merlin, the God-awful nineties movie starring Sam Neill.
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