First scene from new Conan movie

[Omar B]

When I first read the Conan stories, I was kind of surprised when Conan's people were alive and well. Never ONCE mentioned that even his village was destroyed or anything close to that. In fact, other than stating that he was a fierce warrior when he was younger and being captured as a slave not much is really said about his early days.

I'll have to get the book adaptation, I'm itching for a Conan book.

His village and people are alive and well, they even came to Aquilonia to visit him when he was king. But Hollywood likes really simple explanations of things. Revenge is simple. Way more simple than a character who enthralled by the stories of the outside world of his southern grandfather decides to leave his village to become a thief, pirate, killer, mercenary, and eventual king. It reads like the story of a bad guy, but he's not. It's also due to the Cimmerians playing almost no role in the stories till he is king ... a point that the movies will never get up to, gotta have like 10 other big stories first.

Also, the "Age Of Conan" novels that take place concurrently with Conan being king does have Cimmerians, in fact the main character of one of them is a young upstart warrior not unlike Conan himself.

I also think you are mistaken. Conan was never a slave, he says so proudly many times in quite a few stories. Unless you can point out where I missed it. Must be the fog of post-REH writers and the comics.

BTW, this is what I recommend for the original REH stuff - http://www.amazon.com/Coming-Conan-Cimmerian-Original-Adventures/dp/0345461517/ref=pd_sim_b_20 http://www.amazon.com/Bloody-Crown-Conan-Cimmeria-Book/dp/0345461525/ref=pd_sim_b_1 http://www.amazon.com/Conquering-Sword-Conan-Cimmeria-Book/dp/0345461533/ref=pd_sim_b_2

The Robert Jordan stuff collected - http://www.amazon.com/Chronicles-Co...=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1313798739&sr=1-1 http://www.amazon.com/Further-Chron...=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1313798739&sr=1-2