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This is really interesting stuff. I've always had an interest in the King Arthur stories, and especially in Merlin. He seemed to show up in everything I read when I was a child, and was almost always completely unrecognizable. Merlin has become such a weird and enigmatic figure that seems to slot into so much fantasy set in, or with references to, the modern era. Hell in a lot of ways right now there's been a huge push to focus on him and exclude Arthur in a lot of the more young adult and pop culture adaptations of the saga. Here I'm thinking specifically of T.A. Barron's multiple young adult series, Harry Potter, BBC's Merlin, The Dresden Files, The Magic Treehouse, The Dark is Rising, etc. Its interesting because almost all of them eject almost everything about the character and invent a wholly new persona and story. You have everything from Merlin as an idiotic and failable teenager to a stereotypical evil councilor. Though he is, by far, most commonly a mythic wizard who established a major part of the modern setting. He's such a weird and unique character that you seem to be able to slot into almost any role. Arthur, Lancelot, Guinevere and the rest never seem to be as widely and radically reinterpreted as Merlin is.
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