King Arther, legend or not, what do you think of him as a visionary?

[imnothere]

i love the Arther legend. his struggles to over come the society he was born in and make it a better place are inspiring to me weather true or not. i know the T.H.White version of his life best, and am wondering what you think of my hero, as a man or a legend. lets talk about his struggles, his triumphs his failures, the treachery of his friends and family, weather or not he did it to him self.
all the fun controversy that goes with this supposed king.

[Asmo]

Arthur iz teh legend of teh myhts he was TEH BOMB and every roun table since just be frontin hiz idea they are deh imposters and be clamin falsely I was there i know dis man..

[Pieman]

i love the Arther legend. his struggles to over come the society he was born in and make it a better place are inspiring to me weather true or not. i know the T.H.White version of his life best, and am wondering what you think of my hero, as a man or a legend. lets talk about his struggles, his triumphs his failures, the treachery of his friends and family, weather or not he did it to him self.
all the fun controversy that goes with this supposed king.

Well... I do know one thing.
You spelled your heroes name wrong. :P

*Cough* Arthur *cough*

[slanster]

I saw a movie the other day about him.... did he really worked for the roman empire or was that just in that movie? LOL... I know nothing more about him... oyea and his round table

[Murtagh]

I saw a movie the other day about him.... did he really worked for the roman empire or was that just in that movie? LOL... I know nothing more about him... oyea and his round table

NO! he is from the stuff I learned from was in the Netherlands. Round Table was a good idea, just now to much deceit for that to go.

[armbarchris]

The legendary King Arthur (there's more than one way to spell it, by the way) is a very inspiring story, up until the nonsense about Lancelot and Guinevere.
The real person, or persons, the the story is based on is much less interesting. The real Arthur, if he existed, was most likely either a Roman or of one of the barbarian tribes that took over after Rome fell. Which means that Camelot, assuming that it too is real, was probably just a really big wooden hut.

[Japengo]

Personally I think the Monty Python version of him was the most accurate.

He was just a misunderstood King of the Britons who used two coconuts to mimic the sound of a horse since he had none.
He had great knowledge in the area of swallows and the different types of items they could carry, as well as their airspeed velocity.
He inspired a number of enthusiastic followers, including one fellow who could prove the earth was banana shaped, and another who apologized by saying "Sorry." after masssacreing almost an entire wedding by mistake.

There are many wonderful adventures written of him and his men. Some include the Knights Who Say Ni, his defeat of the Black Knight, the Legendary Black Beast of ARGH, and the Rabbit to name a few.

One weakness of his was that he had trouble counting to 3 without being prompted. He would regularly skip from 2 to 5 before being corrected. He also had a tendancy to shout "Run away!" when the situation looks grim.
Unfortunatly his undoing was by modern day police who arrested him for the murder of a historian that he killed while riding by.

[Quantum Leap]

Personally I think the Monty Python version of him was the most accurate.

Agreed.

[imnothere]

as it comes to my attention that some are unfamiliar with the legend myth and man i will attempt a summery brief enough to be read.

Uther Pendragon was your typical war lord who killed and took the lands of a neighbor to increase his own. and fathered a child on the widow, but because she was not yet out of morning when it was born Merlin hid it and no one knew it existed. The widow had three daughters by her first husband. (thats important later)
Arthur grows up as the adopted son of a feudal lord. he is tutored by Merlin and pulls his long desieced fathers sword from a stone at the end of the first part of T.H.Whites The Sword in the Stone.
then his idilc rain over Camelot with his personal quest to channel might for right and establish laws that last longer then the life of him who makes them.
and his ultimate down fall at the hands of his bast ard son Mordrid who was gotten off him by one of his 1/2 sisters by witchcraft. (she seduced him by witch craft i mean)

i'm seriously in need of food right now i will fix this post later.

[armbarchris]

Everyone knows the basic story, or at least one of the hundreds of different versions. The details vary from story to story depending on who is telling it, (oral tradition at its finest) but it would be difficult to find someone in the British Isles or in America who didn't know the basic story.