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Post by joethoms on Feb 10, 2016 10:35:01 GMT -5
I would like to know what other characters REH readers like? My favorites are Sailor Steve Costigan, El Borak, and Breckinridge Elkins. I feel Mark Finn was right in that the "funny" stories by Howard are given short shrift.
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Post by fernando on Feb 10, 2016 18:31:58 GMT -5
Red Sonya of Rogatine, Black Vulmea, Agnes de La Fère and James Allison's past lives.
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Post by KiramidHead on Feb 10, 2016 18:53:09 GMT -5
I haven't had the chance to read any yet, but I'm very much looking forward to reading the El Borak collection I've ordered.
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Post by kullagain on Feb 10, 2016 23:42:47 GMT -5
I know he's a relatively thin character, but I want to say Niord, just because he reminds of a poetically illustrated version of the primal fury Dutch becomes at the end of Predator, which I think is fitting since Predator shares a lot of traits with Valley of the Worm. Was Jon McTiernan a REH fan btw?
Tbh though, the characters I am most curious learning about through stories are Dark Agnes, El Borak, Steve Costigan.
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Post by Char-Vell on Feb 11, 2016 9:19:55 GMT -5
Black Vulmea, Cormac Mac Art.
I need to read some more El Borak stuff, as well as some Howard Westerns.
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Post by joethoms on Feb 11, 2016 10:02:49 GMT -5
The El Borak yarns are excellent. Does anybody here know how many Turlogh O'Brien stories there were and where are they collected?
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Post by deuce on Feb 11, 2016 10:25:11 GMT -5
Does anybody here know how many Turlogh O'Brien stories there were and where are they collected? The only place all of them are collected is in Swords of the North (REHF). It was intended to have all of the Turlogh/CMA yarns in one volume for Del Rey. After that fell through, then they were combined with the Allison tales for SotN. As far as "how many?", Howard Works is always your friend: howardworks.com/subject.htm#turloughHope that helps.
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Post by Jason Aiken on Feb 11, 2016 12:47:31 GMT -5
Besides the icons mentioned, I'd say my favorite character is Niord from "The Valley of the Worm."
But I also have to give a special nod to Hialmar in "Marchers of Valhalla."
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Post by zarono on Feb 12, 2016 10:59:08 GMT -5
I would probably rank James Allison's various incarnations as my favorite outside of the big 3 mentioned, with Turlough O'Brien next.
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Post by deuce on Feb 12, 2016 11:04:59 GMT -5
I would probably rank James Allison's various incarnations as my favorite outside of the big 3 mentioned, with Turlough O'Brien next. Yeah, I rank those Allison tales very highly, even the fragments.
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Post by spiderlime on Feb 12, 2016 12:15:05 GMT -5
de montour (he deserved more stories) red sonya and dark agnes (same for them)
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Post by themirrorthief on Feb 18, 2016 20:46:01 GMT -5
I really really like Cormac Fitzgeoffrey and Belit...Dennis Dorgan would prob be my favorite totally unsung character, I greatly enjoyed his tales
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Post by spiderlime on Feb 19, 2016 13:57:02 GMT -5
as for niord, my hair still stands on end with awe as i recall the first time i read that story. it was long before i read the more familiar works of howard, and before i was told (on the old howard forum|) that it's a retelling of beowulf's battle with the dragon. i was taken to task for not knowing that it was set AFTER the age of conan, since the language and the setting were so evocative of the eddas, and the setting so primordial, to say nothing of howard'[s brilliance in creating a "root" for the dragonslayer myths, that i thought it belongs in a much earlier time. if only the grendel part was complete...
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Post by thedarkman on Feb 19, 2016 17:21:57 GMT -5
Conan of the Reavers, from People of the Dark. That Gaelic Iron Age pirate really captured my imagination. Cut from the same cloth as several of his barbaric/Celtic heroes, Howard seemed to give this one a little more sandpaper in his character, a touch more grit. A true iron man from rough, crude Iron Age. I would love to try a few pastiche short stories about this Conan, and possibly expand on his adventures just a little..,
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Post by deuce on Feb 19, 2016 20:17:28 GMT -5
Conan of the Reavers, from People of the Dark. That Gaelic Iron Age pirate really captured my imagination. Cut from the same cloth as several of his barbaric/Celtic heroes, Howard seemed to give this one a little more sandpaper in his character, a touch more grit. A true iron man from rough, crude Iron Age. I would love to try a few pastiche short stories about this Conan, and possibly expand on his adventures just a little.., Yeah, I thought that from the first time I read TPotD. Conan of Eir-ann was a bloody-handed killer. IMO, he and FitzGeoffrey and Conn (TGGP) were all prototypes of Conan that REH was working toward. Conan the Reaver could definitely have had other cool adventures. Just guessing, I'd say they would take place sometime around 1AD. That is, between the time of Caesar's failed invasion and the Claudian one. On a similar note, I am a huge fan of Eithriall the Gaul ( Two Against Tyre). I read that tale before I ever read any REH Conan. In high school, I came up with a rough outline of adventures for him with various illos I drew myself. I spent several years trying to nail down the likely period and decided the "Shalmaneser" in the tale had to be Shalmaneser V mentioned in the Bible: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shalmaneser_VA tumultuous period and ripe for tales of blood and skullduggery.
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