2011, Beth Wyatt, "Merlin", Concrete (University of East Anglia), 25 October 2011, page 11:
Fans of the two characters, dubbed "Merthur" because of their "bromance," will now wonder whether Merlin will be able to confess his secret anytime soon.
Although not one of the best written stories I've read, the cute, fluffy Merthur plot makes up for it.
2013, "Fanfiction Pet", Fandoms Assemble, September 2013, page 13:
We also want fics which don't character bash i.e. Ron in Dramione fics and Gwen in Merthur.
2015, Alice Oseman, Solitaire, page 198:
Lauren frowns. “Mate! I thought we’d agreed on ‘Mori’! Or ‘Tichael’!” She sighs. “Man, your names just aren’t good enough, like, they don’t work, they don’t work like Klaine or Romione or Destiel or Merthur. . . .”
2015, Philippa Semper, "'Camelot must come before all else': Fantasy and Family in the BBC Merlin", in Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture (ed. Gail Ashton), page 123:
Thousands of Merlin/Arthur stories were uploaded to www.fanfiction.net, in addition to other fan sites dedicated to 'Merthur', as the pairing became known.
2019, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games, page 96:
Given some viewers' objections to the presence of Gwen on Merlin, it is perhaps unsurprising that the most popular "ship" (fandom term for relationship) in the fandom is Merther—the undeniable connection between the young wizard and the monarch he serves so devotedly.
