<Ul> <Li> Some authors choose to emphasize a single character . Nimue appears in T.H. White's 1958 novel The Once and Future King as a water nymph and Merlin's enchantress . True to the legend she traps Merlin in a cave, but Merlin does not convey it as negative, and even refers to it as a holiday . </Li> </Ul> <Li> Some authors choose to emphasize a single character . Nimue appears in T.H. White's 1958 novel The Once and Future King as a water nymph and Merlin's enchantress . True to the legend she traps Merlin in a cave, but Merlin does not convey it as negative, and even refers to it as a holiday . </Li> <Ul> <Li> Mary Stewart's 1979 novel The Last Enchantment radically recasts the story of Merlin and Niniane, completely removing the aspect of malicious seduction and treachery dominant in the traditional version . In this depiction Merlin takes Niniane on as an apprentice, with her at first disguised as a boy, and willingly teaches her his magic . When her identity as a woman is discovered, they fall in love despite their age difference . As he gives her the secrets of his psychic abilities and how to control them, he seems to lose them himself--which Merlin does not mind . In a depleted, weakened condition, he takes ill and falls into a coma, and is believed to be dead . Niniane has him buried within his "crystal cave", where he awakes some time later . He escapes after a few weeks, through a combination of chance luck and ingenious planning, and travels incognito to let Arthur know he is still alive . Niniane takes Merlin's place as the court wizard - seer, while Merlin retires to the crystal cave and lives a quiet and happy life as a hermit . </Li> </Ul> <Li> Mary Stewart's 1979 novel The Last Enchantment radically recasts the story of Merlin and Niniane, completely removing the aspect of malicious seduction and treachery dominant in the traditional version . In this depiction Merlin takes Niniane on as an apprentice, with her at first disguised as a boy, and willingly teaches her his magic . When her identity as a woman is discovered, they fall in love despite their age difference . As he gives her the secrets of his psychic abilities and how to control them, he seems to lose them himself--which Merlin does not mind . In a depleted, weakened condition, he takes ill and falls into a coma, and is believed to be dead . Niniane has him buried within his "crystal cave", where he awakes some time later . He escapes after a few weeks, through a combination of chance luck and ingenious planning, and travels incognito to let Arthur know he is still alive . Niniane takes Merlin's place as the court wizard - seer, while Merlin retires to the crystal cave and lives a quiet and happy life as a hermit . </Li>

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