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Entry: The Round Table - A1131887
Author: Fragilis the Melodical - U136122

Please also see:

Furniture Tables
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/A1131896

Conceptual Tables
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/A1131869

There's an entry on Winchester that has just been scouted. When it's been allocated to a scout and got a new number, it might be worth a link. It mentions the Round Table.

A1133137

Good entry

I think you should mention the purpose of the Round Table - I heard it's so everyone could be equal and there was no head or foot. You've kind of mentioned that, but not much. You should also say that the term is used nowadays - people have Round Table Discussions (at least, here they do ) which means everyone's equal, has to listen to everyone else, everyone has something to offer etc.

Hope that's okay...

Niwt

I'll add a link to the Winchester entry today.

Newt, I included more about the purpose of the Round Table in my entry on Furniture Tables, where it's applauded as the most famous table of all time. I may need to revise my placement of information. Hmm...

The other (excellent!) entries are quite long, so it wouldn't hurt to put all conceptual and physical features of the Round Table here with the historio-mythological entry.

I have made the following changes:

* A link was added to the scouted entry on Winchester.

* A section was added titled 'Why Was the Round Table Round.'

The new section includes a discussion of the table's symbolic shape, an interesting factoid about the shape's practicality, and a reference to the phrase 'Round Table discussion.'

I thought in days of yore the king would sit in the middle of a long side of the table... I don't think I've ever seen them sitting at the head or foot (in films and such tables are normally a squared-off U shape, with the king in the middle facing the centre...). I could be wrong tho!

My understanding is that the king would typically sit at the head of the table. Like you, I may be wrong. In modern movies, the king is always seated in the middle of the table for one very practical reason. A good camera angle for multiple actors is easier to achieve with a straight line as opposed to a right angle.

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