I'd echo Peter here; I'm always intrigued in how people who have read the REH canon view 'Barbarian' and 'Destroyer' because, quite simply, most people I know simply haven't perused REH's Conan. Go on Keith!
I am much more of a REH fan than a JRR Trollkin fan for one thing, so am
less concerned when various elves get messed up in LoTR than others might be. I
look forward to the Silmarilion movie. The things I disliked about the Conan
films were the bits about being captured as a boy, made stong by pushing a
mill round, all that stuff that gives Arnold's Conan some sort of long term plan
for vengeance or being super tough.
I really like some of the scenes in Conan, the resurrection bit, the nailed
to a tree bit, but they do not tell the same story about the same barbarian as
REH.
_http://www.donherron.com/conan_vs_conantics.html_
(http://www.donherron.com/conan_vs_conantics.html)
For some criticism of other non-REH authors, see Don Herron's link.
Although Milius' Conan does depart quite heavily from certain trends in REH, I quite like various elements of 'Barbarian'. And good old Basil Poledouris' score tends to keep me enthused through thick and thin... even for a film that casts as its three central heroic leads a body-builder, a dancer and a surfer (leaving the 'actor' Mako to one side).
I must admit that I like the music from LoTR better than the Conan score.
Must go, serious boozing and wenching to do in the fleshpots of Zamo...erm
Rochdale.
Keith
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