Okay, I really just put this thread in here to get it some visibility, but if asked, I'd mumble something about Malory as an influence and Roger Lancelyn Green and Charles Williams writing Arthurian fiction and poetry.
That aside, I'm wondering how everybody here pronounces the name Gawain. I grew up thinking it was pronounced guh-WANE, but the meter of some poets seems to require GUH-wane. I've looked around online and found some folks who say it is GAH-win or something like that.
That's one of the problems, I suppose, with having interests that most people are unlikley to share and therefore unlikely to talk about: it's too easy to mispronounce a word for years and years. (I misread Cair Paravel as Cair Pavel for maybe upwards of six or seven years as a child, only catching my mistake when watching the BBC production of LWW.)