No, Hollywood screws everything up these days. It would be better to have higher quality fan films at this point. Edit: I think that some good fan made animated versions of these books would be great, given the lockdowns. No anime, though. Realistic Edit: No Calart either....
@Raylan Givens That would be nice, but they big studios have ways of keeping independents down. All the effects companies, and advertising agencies all want to stay on the good side of the big six. If a great Conan movie is made, it will probably be a group of dedicated fans who don't even expect to make money off of it. If Hollywood finally has a real market crash without bailouts, well that would open the door back up. It's a long shot though, Hollywood has lots of friends in banking and government lol Sorry, I can be pretty black pilling on Hollywood.
This was the first one I read. Edit: Aside from the one about the assassins trying to kill King Conan, and getting their asses handed to them. I don't remember it well. I can't even remember if he survived the attack, but I know he kicked the hell out of them.
Did REH have any actual knowledge of fencing? He says things on occasion that makes me think he had some kind of experience with martial arts and melee weapons.
Howard was very well read, so I imagine he had knowledge from reading at least. Here are a couple of quotes you might find interesting: “I used to wish that I could learn to fence, but the opportunity never presented itself, fencing masters not being very commonly met with in West Texas. A friend and I, several years ago, decided to try to learn the art by practice, and being unable to obtain foils, we used a pair of army swords. It was my misfortune, however, to run him through the right hand in the very first bout, and thereafter he could never be persuaded to fence again. I doubt, though, if fencing could ever have interested me like boxing, since it is, apparently, founded on finesse, and gives little opportunity for the exercise of ruggedness and sheer physical power.” “Weapons, especially edged weapons, axes, swords, and spears, hold my attention as nothing else can. Long ago I started collecting them, but found it a taste far too expensive for my means. I still have the things I did manage to get hold of - a few sabers, swords, bayonets and the like.”
There is a dramatized shorter version of The Tower of the Elephant that i listened before this one, also pretty good, but what caught off guard was Yag-Kosha the alien Elephant man, i mean, freaking aliens in the Conan universe?, that is so cool and it has gotten into listening to these audiobooks! Btw Yag-Kosha was a good boy, he didn't deserve what Yar did to him and it's nice that thanks to Conan, he gets a second chance at being free and happy!
It is a great shame that so many REH stories have been taken down-Copyright they say-I could understand but none of these works are available elsewhere so who enforces copyright whilst doing FA. Like El Borak audiobook by Michael Mc Connahie! I have looked everywhere on the net and even sent him an email and Audible who produced it! They are not interested... so why enforce copyright? It is so Gay.
