A fanmail tonight includes a request for Gawyn to die, and Egwene to hook up with Galad. At least it’s not another begging for Rand + Egwene.
Wow. I did not mean to start an epic Gawyn/Galad/Egwene/Rand thread on my Facebook, but I appear to have done so.
Some interesting reading if you’re thinking/talking about Gawyn as a character can be found here: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight—Wikipedia
(from the comments)
One other way to think of it is thus: The Wheel will keep on turning, and the Age that we live in (or like unto it) will someday arrive. Legends from what is happening in these books will have survived, and become the Arthur legends during our day. Or, in other cases, stories of other characters have survived in other mythologies. (Look up the Slavic god Perun sometime.)
Perrin is not a god, nor is Gawyn the knight of that story I linked. But perhaps someone who lived long ago, in another Age, gave birth to rumors about a young nobleman who made a mistake, and bore the weight of that sin for the rest of his days. And that gave birth to stories, which in turn inspired a poet to write a tale.
The writer of the fanmail in question posted and elaborated at 13th Depository .
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