Have you read Mary Stewart's Arthurian novels? that's the real merlin, five books, a quintet, it is way more accurate than the Merlin tv show, the tv show has the ages and events all wrong and the few that are somewhat accurate are out of order. doesn't everyone know that Guinevere is a fair princess from a faraway land and not a half black servant like the tv show has her be? and morgana is evil, she tries to kill arthur at one point in the books, and tries and to kill merlin many times in teh books. i hate how they have her be all nice and good in the tv series. she has a kid with arthur, she's like ten years older than him and arthur didn't know they were half siblings and she seduced him and she knew and then she had a kid and tried to use the kid to gain power.
sorry, i worship merlin is all lol, and that tv series ruined it, they made things up, changed events and deleted favorites events of mine just to make the tv series be interesting or dramatic. its not even accurate. when it comes to me and merlin, or arthur and hsi lovely bride guinevere that cannot bear him children but is so beautiful that she even gets kidnapped at one point, i don't like reproductions that aren't accurate. i wish there was a movie or tv series that was accurate, because i would kill to watch that. who wouldn't want to see merlin when hes a kid and teenager and be so awesome and then grow old and still be awesome. he was the grandson of a lesser king on his mothers side andon his fathers side.....whoa doggies i can't tell you if you haven't read the book as that's part of the mystery, who his father is.