First audio version of this story, as far as I know! You're making history! 👏👏👏
@PatrickHealey-bo7ey5 ай бұрын
You honor REH - JRR Tolkien, Robert E Howard and Guy Sajer - after 50 yrs seems like yesterday. Thank you.
@PeterShieldsukcatstripey8 ай бұрын
Youre reading this so well mate. My hero is robert e howard.
@nielsebbesen78217 ай бұрын
The first ten minutes had me doing spontaneous push-ups.
@Eduardo_Ventura8 ай бұрын
I was missing some Howard story. Good one, Connor!
@BenSHammonds8 ай бұрын
always a favorite story :)
@nosotrosloslobosestamosreg41158 ай бұрын
Time or a book before to sleep!!!
@Jen-br5hx8 ай бұрын
here with u
@stephenkramer71578 ай бұрын
The speech about life and death put in the mouth of Zengi would later be recycled as a line of Conan’s in Queen of the Black Coast! That really made me prick my ears up when it came up.
@rickanderson86833 ай бұрын
Have you, perchance, ever read Louis L'amour's The Walking Drum? I like to think it's a historical novel REH would've enjoyed. It's a medieval tale, rather than the Western tsles Mr L'Amour is most known for. A very good tale.
@YerCervix8 ай бұрын
Man we need "country of the knife" now. You're doing great service here to an underserved cultural niche, often ignored or censored.
@YerCervix8 ай бұрын
Thank you for this!
@michaelmcgowen15047 ай бұрын
My great grandfather was the town blacksmith in Cross Plains as Robert E Howard's father was the town doctor. My great-uncle Truman said Robert was bashful in the street.
@TheEldritchArchives7 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing! That's amazing to have known people who had met Robert! I've heard he was quite shy at times, but also sometimes very eccentric and outspoken too. He was certainly a unique person!
@OQuinlan-nz1md7 ай бұрын
That's awesome...would love to hear more..was he the outcast he considered himself to be?
@michaelmcgowen15047 ай бұрын
@@OQuinlan-nz1md my great uncle Truman said he was bashful in public. The stories were great and my family is from a hereditary line of black smith's from Perth Scotland. My great grandfather was 6ft 6inches and weighed 300 lbs in 1900. The tales that Robert wrote with the geography and the people were fantastic.
@rickanderson86833 ай бұрын
It may be the Coldsmoke Scotch Ale I've been drinking, but methinks yours is a most excellent tale of family, of ancestors larger than life. My own interest in smithcraft stems from boyhood reading of Conan, of the Volsunga Saga, of Steel and Forging, of Sword, of Steel. It has led me down a long road these 57 years, made me a modern Man cut from the cloth of more ancient days. It stirs the blood, the spirit, to hear of your giant blacksmith forefather as I listen to the reading. Hail our ancestors, and may we be men (and women!) as hard as they at need!
@michaelmcgowen15043 ай бұрын
@@rickanderson8683 Howard said his image of Conan was the greatest knife fighter in the world. Adapting to every opportunity.