A Hollywood movie actually adapting a story without mucking it up? What a novel idea.

A Hollywood movie actually adapting a story without mucking it up? What a novel idea.

Howard made it explicit in "The Hyborian Age" that the Cimmerians were the ancestors of the Irish and Scottish Gaels. I do think they meant "mythic" in a more general sense, though.

Howard made it explicit in "The Hyborian Age" that the Cimmerians were the ancestors of the Irish and Scottish Gaels. I do think they meant "mythic" in a more general sense, though.

The idea of a King Conan movie where Conan has to battle with age has been thrown about since the late 1980s: this doesn't sound particularly different from either Conan the Conqueror or King Conan: Crown of Iron, two projects from the '90s and '2000s respectively. Kind of predates The Expendables and all.

The idea of a King Conan movie where Conan has to battle with age has been thrown about since the late 1980s: this doesn't sound particularly different from either Conan the Conqueror or King Conan: Crown of Iron, two projects from the '90s and '2000s respectively. Kind of predates The Expendables and all.

Conan was just over 40 at the time of "Phoenix on the Sword," so not exactly Octogenarian.

Conan was just over 40 at the time of "Phoenix on the Sword," so not exactly Octogenarian.

Conan was 45 at the time of "The Hour of the Dragon," the last (chronologically) Conan story. But then, there's no point in being faithful to the Howard stories if you're using the 1982 film as the origin, so it's a moot point.

Conan was 45 at the time of "The Hour of the Dragon," the last (chronologically) Conan story. But then, there's no point in being faithful to the Howard stories if you're using the 1982 film as the origin, so it's a moot point.

Howard didn't seem the grave-spinning type, he wasn't precious about his creations. Still, the fact that his Kane was never evil and none of the events of this film happen, or could happen, in the stories, suggests that if he were so inclined he'd give Robert Heinlein a run for his money after Starship Troopers came…

Howard didn't seem the grave-spinning type, he wasn't precious about his creations. Still, the fact that his Kane was never evil and none of the events of this film happen, or could happen, in the stories, suggests that if he were so inclined he'd give Robert Heinlein a run for his money after Starship Troopers came…

It's all so very ironic, considering Robert E. Howard (creator of Conan) absolutely despised Fascism (many of his letters with his comrade H.P. Lovecraft were about how he thought the Fascists of Italy and Austria were "what was wrong with the world" several years before war broke out), and his fiction so…

Incan descent seems to be the only person here who's read the stories.  Conan, in the stories, was a badass fighter because he was a barbarian, where his life was a constant fight for survival against the elements, predators, and rival tribes.  The Conan of the stories would have either fought back against Doom, or…

Presumably this is because you've never read the original stories, which are classic fantasy stories that are part of the foundation for the modern genre and are still in print today.  Unfortunately, people only see "a bunch of brawny naked people hitting each other with swords," even though such a description could…

That's how it's supposed to be pronounced.  The Coh-nahn pronunciation was from the films.  Coh-nen is the proper pronunciation.  It's how Robert E. Howard pronounced it.