If I'm going to read something on the Arthurian legends, I think I'll read from the Old French poems, which sound better and don't have Tolkien's gas-baggy poetry feel to them.

I enjoy Tolkien, but I think that there is very little that he wrote in the way of poetry that was really good. This is, quite simply, some of the worst poetry of his I've seen.

Oh noble six hundred! The clear plagiarism of Tennyson is evident, without the skill of a Tennyson.

I realize that Christopher has been milking his father's legacy for decades in this fashion, but hopefully at some point the notes will run out and we won't be subjected to this sort of misery any more.