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Time for Conan's origin tale.
"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..."
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Time for Conan's origin tale.
"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..."
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...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." - Robert E. Howard
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Robert E. Howard never wrote Conan's origin tale.
But, many details about Conan's youth and his homeland DO appear in other stories, poems, and essays that Howard DID write, and also in a letter to P. S. Miller in 1936, just months before his death.
3/x barbariankeep.com/millerlet.html
But, many details about Conan's youth and his homeland DO appear in other stories, poems, and essays that Howard DID write, and also in a letter to P. S. Miller in 1936, just months before his death.
3/x barbariankeep.com/millerlet.html
