Merthur
English
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[edit]Merthur
- (fandom slang) The ship of characters Merlin and Arthur Pendragon from the television series Merlin.
- 2012, Jodie Tyley, “Merlin Series Five: Volume One”, in SciFiNow, number 74, page 73:
- The bromance between Merthur remains intact, and it was great to see Merlin get his own back by slapping the king.
- 2015, Philippa Semper, “'Camelot must come before all else': Fantasy and Family in the BBC Merlin”, in Gail Ashton, editor, Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture, 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.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Merthur.