Frequently Asked Questions

welcome to the Pendragon FAQ, where i answer the questions i see most frequently asked about Pendragon to the best of my ability. be wary of spoilers! if you have any other questions, i can answer them fastest on my tumblr.

Will there be a Pendragon movie/tv show adaptation?

perhaps the most asked question related to Pendragon. the short answer: maybe!

the long answer: DJ MacHale, as someone who's created tv shows previously, is still trying to get the series picked up by a production company/streaming service. at the moment, i don't have any reason to say he's not still trying to make it happen, but he has also said that he would be okay with it never happening. DJ has also said that he'll only do it if he feels like the people working on it are able to do it well. in addition, the scope of pendragon, especially in terms of budget and time commitment, makes adapting it rather daunting in the eyes of any given network or streaming service. it would take one of those companies being really interested in Pendragon for it to happen. so, yeah... the answer is a very strong maybe.

I read Pendragon when I was a kid and loved it. How does it hold up as an adult reader?

each Pendragon book is its own individual adventure, with its own new world to explore. those individual stories themselves are exciting and interesting, the worldbuilding is creative and serves the narrative well. if that's what you want to read, you'll enjoy the series (at least until the seventh or eighth book, when the series starts to break the patterns of the previous books). beyond that, though, there's of course a narrative that spans across all ten books, which i think plays out wonderfully, and there's a lot of nuances in the characters that i think are easier to see as adult. the plot points you may remember from reading as a kid may take on a new light when you read them as adult. there's a few things that show the books' age, but i find very few of them to be annoying.

What happened in the end?

you can see dj's explanation here. basically: after bobby laments that he's not going to be able to live the life he fought so hard for, he is ultimately given that life anyway, and so are the other travelers on their respective territories. how and why that was able to happen, along with whether or not it's "real" or simply a vision, is up to interpretation. and as bobby reaches the end of his natural life, the truth is revealed to him as Press (yes, it was actually Press) gives him his journals to read. the implication is that after he reads the journals, he dies and goes back to Solara (with courtney soon to follow).