[Groop] (Not a) Conan parody
Chris Emmett
mygodaplum at yahoo.co.uk
Mon Jul 11 00:35:39 PDT 2011
That's a good point, although there's not usually too many evil grand viziers or mad snake god priests out to rule the whole world in the old norse stuff :-)
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>Don't worry, well try to cure you of your wisdom affliction. ;)
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>Prior to Conan you pretty much have to read have Norse Mythology, or Beowulf, for a good Barbarian yarn.
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>H.P. Lovecraft, August Derleth, and other Weird Tales Contemporaries also added to the Genre, or otherwise helped it along.
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>Tolkien (who closely mimicked mythology in many of his works) was, in my opinion a contemporary who took a similar theme in a vastly different direction. Tolkien does have some Lovecraftian undertones at times though (you have to read closely).
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>Sergio Aragones did add the Cute Dog part, however (Thanks KayTee) !
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>T. Gatto
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>Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 23:55:18 +0100
>From: mygodaplum at yahoo.co.uk
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>Thanks for the info
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>I grow older and wiser with the help of my friends :-)
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