Conan the Barbarian Lore: Unveiling the Savage World of the Hyborian Age
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- Опубліковано 25 лис 2024
- "KNOW, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars-Nemedia, Ophir, Brythunia, Hyperborea, Zamora with its dark-haired women and towers of spider-haunted mystery, Zingara with its chivalry, Koth that bordered on the pastoral lands of Shem, Stygia with its shadow-guarded tombs, Hyrkania whose riders wore steel and silk and gold. But the proudest kingdom of the world was Aquilonia, reigning supreme in the dreaming west. Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen- eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet."
Dive into the savage world of Conan the Barbarian, the iconic Cimmerian warrior. Explore the vast and ancient lands of Hyboria, filled with dark sorcery, epic battles, and tales of treachery. Discover the legacy of Robert E. Howard's legendary creation.
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I read My 1st Conan story "Red Nails" when I was 12 back in 1973 and was HOOKED, I Still have Every Comic, Savage Sword, and All the Paperbacks , was Disappointed with Decamp and Carter's stories but read them because Hey, It's Conan and have Every One, Conan was the Start of one of the Greatest Literary Genres Ever, Sword and Sorcery!
Robert Jordan actually wrote a Conan story if I remember correctly long before the Wheel of Time and it was actually pretty good. But no one has ever bested the originals. I have the unabridged compendium and still read it all the time. Nobody described sword play as well as REH…
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If I recall correctly, my first Conan story was The Thing in the Crypt.
@@thefurrybastard1964 mine was “the frost giants daughter” had the Frank Frazetta poster on my bedroom wall as a kid too…
@@planetdisco4821 That's a good one. I read it in shrt story form, then later came across it in the comics.
The Frank Frazzeta cover art was a huge pull factor with the 60's/70's rebirth. He deserves lot's of credit in this.
I'd urge anybody to read all of Howards stuff though, it is violent, exciting and flat out fantasy/adventure gold. The modern "Del Rey" reissues are high quality (the best actually) and reasonably priced.
I loved Conan the Barbarian movie. The others were just silly. The books are absolutely the best. I definitely prefer the books over the movies any day.
I love the stories of Conan the barbarian both in the novels, comics and movies. I don't think Arnold Schwarzenegger ever portrayed Conan as being dumb. He portray him as being silent, thoughtful at times brooding but with a sense of humor. I wouldn't say that JRR Tolkien's stories weren't dark either. He just portrays his characters with hope and faith despite the odds. But both are inspiring.
They need to make a Conan TV series in the spirit of Spartacus!
Arnold’s Conan film doesn’t “dumb down” the character imo. He is a flawed character that tried, and sometimes failed, to survive in his chaotic world. But I think Arnold’s presence and acting, yes I said acting 😆, were good in Conan the the Barbarian.
People just say that because Arnold didn't have many lines in the movie. But he himself is admitted he wasn't very good at English at that time.
Still, it's not exactly the Conan we know from Howard's stories. Good, but different. I think it's almost impossible to properly convey the poetic, ethereal and often mystical feel of the original Conan stories on the screen without some type of advanced animation (computer or otherwise) and it would be a project that would have to be driven by someone who not only loves these stories but would also have the care, time and patience to bring it to fruition. This is something that is unlikely to happen since it would entail financial risk on the part of those producing it. After all, unfortunately, money is the bottom line. For now, read the stories and imagine the visuals in your own mind --- because we ourselves are the creators of the greatest films never made.
@@Hernal03 I'm realizing that the more I research the Conan universe. Still like the Arnold movie tho (the first one lol).
@@FrshJurassicPrnceYA Yes, I agree with that also. Though it was different from the stories, the spirit was there and it was actually very good. It was the one character in Schwarzenegger's career that fit his persona best and he did a great job. Though I can't help but feel that the definitive Howard Conan is yet to be made. We likely agree on one thing though --- that second movie in the series was nowhere near as good and would be best forgotten.
Then they should have at least made him die his hair black....he was way too short and muscle bound.....now it was a pretty good movie but It Was NOT R E Howard's Conan
Excellent little film, that encapsulates Howard’s spirit. I am periodically reading all the Conan stories again, in the Masterworks edition which is in the original form, without de Camp’s edits.
The movie Conan shows Conan gaining an education.
I really love Conan and this fictional universe and thanks to this video I also started reading The Phoenix on the Sword. Can only recommend it.❤
thank you! do it, its a great read
Please check out my audio version of The Phoenix on the Sword 🗡️🗡️
Thanks for the bits about Carter & DeCamp. Their work, while falling short of Howard's, still felt more authentic than the writers who came later including the revered Robert Jordan.
I agree
Never having gotten to read the original stories of Conan by Howard, I had only the tweaked versions by de Camp and Carter, but I LOVED them! De Camp's style always appealed to me, especially with his own work, but we have him and Carter to thank for reviving Conan in the 60s. Otherwise, he might have faded into pulp oblivion.
I agree. Even though I am a purist now, I think de Camp and Carter deserve credit for keeping Conan alive.
@@TheEricthefruitbat Pretty much my point: if de Camp and Carter had not done so, would Berkley have thought to eventually publish the stories in their original form? I'm glad they did reprint the originals, because they provide a revived perspective on Howard's creativity and style. There was a book published on the centennial of Howard's birth (I believe) some years ago compiling his poetry. Man, I would pay *blood* to have a copy of that! Too bad they didn't print more copies, more's the pity.
If it was kept to the original source, it would be a amazing tv show
The comic books should not be ignored, especially Savage Sword. Especially anything drawn by John Buscema or Ernie Chan in general is a pleasure to behold!
I always come back to this beautiful intro into Conans Hyporia
One of the most concise and excellent videos out there about this, thank you!
Simple, short, well-put and full with essence. Thanks for making that!
Excellent video, these women were straight up beautiful, and all natural, love it.
Love this essay. Great narration and fascinating writing
I pretty much have every conan book etc written. Great reading.
Up until the mid 1980s I had all the copies of anything Conan I could find. I was such a huge fan and family, despite my age, use to get me whatever they came across including the back and white comics and copies of the movies that Arnold starred in. Unfortunately during the Christmas season our home caught fire from faulty wiring while we were out and about and came home to an inferno, and fortunately we tried to save some pets but was too late for most and some had to be put down on the scene having been horrifically burned. My hands and lungs got burned as i tried to help save some of the pets which was a couple of cockatiel that were a mated pair for about 11 years, some parakeets, some farm cats and a couple of dogs. I stopped collecting things after that. I also avoided having any pets of my own if I could help it. Still love the genre and it inspired me to actually learn about real history and actual ancient cultures and not all the ancient aliens new age type bullshit we are inundated with now.
Damn, sorry to hear you suffered such a calamity. Hope your hands and lungs recovered ok/
Whenever I read or listen to Conan it is Ernie Chan's Conan in my mind. 🍻
The world of Conqnn does indeed exist its just in another dimension. Howard felt that he didn't even have to think when he wrote the stories, it's like he was surveying Conans adventures and was writing what he witnessed.. maybe some individuals can experience other realities in some ,msterious way which they then pass on what they feel in the form of writing. This is how we have so many incredible and fantastic stories of myths and Gods that are thousands of years old.
Howard was definitely astrally traveling,I do it often.
Maybe in some far off dimension, a mighty wizard writes about Steve the accountant in his free time.
@@MyPhobo Moving at high speeds every day by putting some potion inside of a steel box. Occasionally getting into a steel tube and hurtling through the air higher and faster than a bird.
It's not another dimension. Cimmerians were real people who lived in scythia who were the ancestors of the gaels in Irish myth. Atlantis was next to Iberia according to plato, Iberia is where the sons of Míl came from (pregaels)so Howard simply was re telling a tribal story. Conan is a real fomorian prince who was slain by the sons of nemed as well, his god was Crom Cruach, who is the Irish version of Chronos, because the Tuatha Danaan (tribe of Dan and the pre inhabitants of Ireland) came from Greece after learning necromancy. All of this is easily researchable. Why was Conans god Chronos? Because the time god has always been associated with hardship, trial, and overcoming. Nobody goes to Crom's foot to worship, they go to slay him or to be slain by him
@@timesupea thats full on Bro,
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The 90s film, Kull the Conqueror was supposed to be a sequel to the 80s Conan films, but it developed into something different; though I know that Kull was a separate and original character in Howard's Barbarian universe.
Well done sir, well done.
The Arnold movie was a great insight too how brutal the world is because the ending isn’t happy Conan still has to deal with mental scars of his past trauma Even when he sits on the throne at the ending credits he’s not happy too be king it’s like he’s reflecting on good times before they were shattered.
We all yarns for the day when king Conan would finally rule in peace,which ofcourse never happens.
I have a three volume set of the original stories. Also the Carter and deCamp pastiches. A Red Nails comic with artwork by
Barry Windsor-Smith. The Frazetta covers are all Masterpieces
Thank you for giving voice to what my soul always knew… #superroperbros
My favourite barbarian of all time!
This was awesome.
You earned yourself a sub.
I’m going to binge your video list.
Thanks a lot. always happy when someone enjoyed the work
I love the Conan stories. I especially love his portrayal of some of the women and what makes them exited in a man. LOL! My wife finds it quite humorous.
Great introduction. Thank you 😊
The only author I take seriously of Conan books (aside from REH himself of course) is John Maddox Roberts who totally 'got' REH and his style came closest to being akin to REH's. The fact JMR was ex-military and unashamedly right-wing didn't hurt either.
Have you read "Conan - Road of Kings" by Karl Edward Wagner?
Arnold's a wonderful Conan. You my friend are jealous.😮
What's interesting is that his King Kull stories came before Conan. So when Howard wrote the first Conan story, he had figured out that readers wanted more action and adventure, and less philosophizing. Conan essentially started out as a revised version of King Kull.
Great job!❤
Great stuff
I was a copper for 15 years 20 years ago..it times of danger like getting pelted with rocks, petrol bombs or being chased around by a big angry dude with a knife..I used to look up and say, "crom.." and do Conan's little mantra ..only got burned once and jabbed twice so who knows,?Might of worked?
Thank you Chat GPT, I can tell you are verry enthusiastic about Conan.
The software is called Elevenlabs ;) the text we wrote ourselfs
You like Conan read Karl Edward Wagner's Kane books.
1:57 Locecraft?
Typo in the script, brought to voice by AI
It would be great if they made a movie that follow the books.
To me Fritz Leiber and his creation " Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser " are a bit better. Leiber wrote about this duo over a 50 year span while also taking on the Horror and SF genre. Conan's a cool read as well.....Aloha
I keep hearing of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, so I'll have to track some of these down.
@@fordprefect80 You won't be disappointed. BTW Leiber came up with the term " Sword and Sorcery " around 1961. Enjoy it, Aloha
Can you make video content on Kull and Red Sonja lore please as love Mr Howard's work! 😁
Will do!
Thank you! 🙂👍
Really cool narration. Would you do one for another of Robert E Howards creations Solomon Kane? A swashbuckling swordsman and wanderer of 16th century Europe and Africa, fights slavers and pirates to spectres and vampire queens. Hell any of his other characters are worth looking up.
We certainly will talk about Solomon Kane!
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Perhaps an ancestor of mine.
17th century wasn't it?
Loved the first movie, hated the second one...the movies should have delved deeper into the world of Conan.
Don't you mean Lovecraft?
Nice summary! You might dig my Conan tribute I did 12 years ago.
did. 12 years ago is quite some time ago
Conan deserves a Lord of the Rings commitment to film if it's to be taken seriously. I think 5 films would do it. The 1st four work up to his kingship and ends w/ that. They movies can only be based on Howard's original stories,.. . blending them together. Part 1: Thief years - Part 2: Mercenary - Part 3: Pirate years - Part 4: the border scout(beyond the black river) ending w/ Conan gaining the Crown @ end of 4 - Part5: King Conan. Hour of the Dragon / other 2 King story elements where it fits. End
If you listen to this video narator ... you will get that his voice is literally 100% on par with the narator from Fallout 2. Insane. Same intonation, same pauses, same tone... must be some sort of a software 🤔
"Locecraft" was a tell.
The main problem with the movie was that Conan lost his heritage by being sent into slavery at a young age by Thusa doom, who is actually from the king kull characters of the age before, in Atlantis Howard repeatedly throughout the stories, talked about how Conan could scale a sheer wall how Conan was at the battle with the Aalon at 15 years old when the barbarians quote came swarming out of the hills, and put every last man to the sword“ the movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Disregard all of this, because the, major contributing Advisor was L Sprague de camp Who didn’t follow any of Howard’s original ideas
DeCamp was good in his own right. He explored some ideas. Carter was very imitative but descriptive. His Thongor was a rip-off of Kull and Jondar of Callisto was a rip-off of Burrough's John Carter. But both still very readable little adventures. Howard's masterpieces might be his boxing stories. His imagery of the in-the-ring experience is intense.
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4:36 You mean he was the "chronicler" of the Hyborian Age.
I read like so many of those paperbook books in school and no homework and yes were as Sean during which year of high thanks for whoever gave my Frind Phill free six months at a new type of Gym and yes I read about pumping iron and who really drive you constantly to communicate yes very much so really good because guess what happened with..
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The world of Conan is falsely portrayed in filmdom. Filmmakers need to think of the different "kingdoms" of Hyboria as more advanced than the normal depiction. Guilds and cults and "religious" organizations are not based on sad ancient tomes. They are full blown technical experts based on far-fetched, magical and technological knowledge. The art of war has advanced technology to a heightened state. Blacksmiths are not lone musclemen working village anvils. They are a powerful guild filled with many practitioners, journeymen and experts with division of labor including miners, designers, foundrymen and tool experts, including hand cranked and mechanical lathes powered by water and wind.
It is a land filled with varied and complex languages that are more akin to each other than today's languages. Languages steeped in deeper philosophical learning because they have access to highly advanced technology, science and supernatural elements. Elements not based on fantasy but on fact. Imagine certain sects posessed knowledge of electricity that was not based on chemicals and dynamos that modern science is familiar with, but on materials, Geometries, "batteries" and "spells" unlike anything known today.
One must imagine Conan being trained by the masters of the Thieves' Guild to recognize traps and artifacts of these esoteric technologies.
Imagine Conan a less academic Indiana Jones. Part student, soldier, spy, thief, mercenary, rogue filled with primitive instincts and lusts and spurred by an ancient fate that directs his progress, with no ambition but to live well and satiate his appetites. If it be to die then so be it.
This is the best description of Conan I've ever heard
Super based. The world has truly slept on Robert Ervin Howard.
What is best in life ?
To crush your opponents, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women of course. Some people get fooled into thinking it’s the wind in your hair or the falcon at your wrist. Nope.
@@thoronthol1175 Never make that mistake !!!
Check out my Conan audio dramas, only two are finished and up on my channel so far.
I prefer this over the crap that is happening right now
Narration by: Geralt of Rivia
I wish it were so
Conan is not "Wolf like" he is obviously more Tiger or Lion like
Panther
@@thomasperricone7777 Panther is less than a Lion or Tiger
Wolf by his personality
I never understood the criticism of Arnold's portrayal. He wasn't as agile as Conan from the books. Obviously he wouldn't be as experienced either but nothing in the movies leads me to believe he was portrayed as slow or slow witted. Seems like stereotyping the muscle man more than a criticism of the portrayal.
Where all the monsters and wizards are really Eternals and Deviants...and mutants.
"Locecraft".
Did an AI put this text to voice?
"El Borak" (Francis Xavier Gordon) was an American, a Texan, NOT a Brit.
what's the picture at 2:39? is it mere coincidence that the lady strongly resembles Wonder Woman?
BTW, the original stories by carter and de camp, and especially their 'posthumous collaborations' are mostly pure excrement compared to the original.
Saying that it is believed Robert Howard created the sword and sorcery Jandra leaves La Mort DA Author out of history and Malory lived around 1470 according to Google, long before Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 - June 11, 1936) lived and died. And there is Three Musketeers is a French historical adventure novel written in 1844 by French author Alexandre Dumas. Robert may have had a hand in reviving the jandra, but not in creating it.
The greek mythology is full of sword and sorcery so the Greeks invented it!
Now that i think about it i guess indian, egyptian and chinese mythologies are even older and they full of sorcery, fighting und superhuman beings as well as monsters! The first written scriptures are from the Sumerians and their Gilgamesh-tale could be the first sword & sorcery tale (although they believed it actually happened). You could say Gilgamesh was some kind of Conan-like character although he was a giant with superhuman power!
@@stevko4215 Somewhere between Gilgamesh and Samson, some Iron Age Near Eastern storytellers are, perhaps, hiding in some clay tablets
"Numidia"
Mako's voice was more impressive.
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Robert E. Howard was a fantastic writer, one of my favourites, and Conan is one of his greatest characters. The "Conan the Barbarian" films are horrible. The character depicted in the films is NOT Robert E. Howard's Conan, and those silly movies are an affront to R.E.H.'s creation. As a true Robert E. Howard devotee, I'm proud to say that I despise Hollywood's version of "Conan". Anyone wanting to know the real literary figure that is Conan, read Howard's original stories written back in the 1930's. To hell with those damned, pseudo, forged, movie knockoffs!.
The strange, sad trend of a lot of these Robert E Howard literary retrospective videos on UA-cam seems to be this idea that they can elevate the status of Howards work and his legacy by dumping on the 1982 John Milius film LoL.
Stephan King is not a fan of Howards work and much of the academic literary world tends to agree with him. Most academics sneer at "pulp fiction" ( then genre, not the movie ) in general .
The truth is,.that outside of Tolkien, its mighty difficult to find serious literary support for fantasy as critics view the whole genre in almost the same way as they view comic books.
The 82 Milius film might have more respect among cinephiles and film critics then howards work has among book snobs, and it was practically nearly THE standard bearer for the 'Sword & Sorcery " film genre, until, ironically, Peter Jackson adapted.....
Weren't the barbarians actually from Germania? Arnolds accent makes sense...... Sort of....
Southern Ukraine and Russia .
I never got his universe its after the fall of Atlantis and before any known ancient culture? It is all jungle and desert.
It doesn’t have to be placed in the timeline of our world.. it’s all feel. Howard was a master of suggestion and mood. He evoked the primal and the sensory.. the use of a few terms from our mythologies was a way to place it in an alternative space and time but keep us rooted in something just familiar enough.
That is how I prefer fantasty a world outside of EArth modeled on a specific time / place in Earth's history @@thoronthol1175
“Suicide”
Robots do not speak like humans. They off ten miss red wards or put the wrong emPHAsis or the wrong syLABel.
I wonder if there is a content mill startup kit.
I recently attempted to rewatch the Arnold Conan movies. Other than the score and the look of the Hyperborian world the movie was unwatchable.
Especially after Arnold's view on our freedom.....
Still like the movies.
Please enjoy that island that you're on.
Absolutely agree with you. You're a REAL Conan fan. Why someone would choose to watch the movie when they could spend two hours reading one of Howard's "Conan" stories baffles me to no end. The figure played by Schwarzenegger in "Conan the Barbarian" is not Conan! They should have just named the film, "The Barbarian", because Robert E. Howard's "Conan" is altogether absent in that piece-of-crap film. Ron Cobb, the movie's production designer, even once said, "Our strength in making this film is that we know nothing about the literary 'Conan'."
@@Raiderhater-m7k That island is full of TRUE Conan enthusiasts - you wouldn't fit in.
great prose the AI voice over doesn't do it justice. beep bop boop, engage do not recommend channel protocol
Conan is dull and boring, Kull is way better and more interesting. It's weird Howard wrote Kull before Conan, yet Kull is much more intellectual and sophisticated work.
So tired of AI crap reading.
There was definitely an age just like this . Read the Bible
Not really. The Hyborean Age was a mashup by a fantasist of different historical periods with wildly varying technological capabilities. Most of the fantasists that compiled the Bible were living in the Bronze Age and the level of civilization and technology in those stories usually reflected that historical period only.
right! the movie with arnold schwatznegger is bad