The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley certainly made one big impression on me when I was 14.

I too read the Mists of Avalon at 14, and it completely changed how I looked at lots of things, including the idea of One True Love. I too then moved to Darkover, where my favorite was the one with the gloomy gay falconer, an idea I was already familiar with from Mary Renault. But what an impact on my adolescent inner life! The whole world view of it was different.

I then progressed to Mary Stewart's Merlin trilogy

As did I. As a matter of fact, I reread the Crystal Cave last weekend.

Lingering Roman heritage also figures in Parke Godwin's Fire Lord, which impressed yours truly (then around 18) with being the first fictional treatment to actually make Arthur, not anyone else, the central character - and an interesting, very human character at that,

I read Firelord before the Mists of Avalon, when I was 12. It is still my favorite, coming the closest to the historical period in my mind.

I too have never been satisfied with a movie treatment. (First Knight? Please!)

While you were writing this entry this morning, my head was also off on Arthur/Aragorn, as you can see in my lj.

Twins separated at birth.