In any case, for me that moment goes to the heart of something “The Green Knight” cares deeply about, and that’s mercy. Mercy is something Gawain ... scholar J.R.R. Tolkien, who famously ...

(The Middle-earth echoes are fitting: J.R.R. Tolkien famously translated “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” himself, and Weta Digital, known for its work on “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy ...

Austen Goslin (he/him) is an entertainment editor. He writes about the latest TV shows and movies, and particularly loves all things horror. After a year delay, The Green Knight, David Lowery (A ...

Long before J.R.R. Tolkien published ... then professor of literature, Tolkien would have been exposed to Anglo-Saxon poems like Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. While it falls in ...

Dev Patel's Arthurian adventure is based on a 2,500-line poem that spent centuries in obscurity Just before he heads off on his lunatic midwinter quest in The Green Knight Dev Patel’s Sir Gawain ...

Our loss, no doubt. If we did, we might, during this holiday season, dust off Sir Gawain & the Green Knight, a 2,500-line verse narrative by a poet who lived 600 years ago and whose name we don't ...

The Green Knight's wife visits Sir Gawain in secret, in an illustration from the Pearl manuscript. Credit: British Library / Public domain / Wikimedia Commons Although Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ...