>>55721277Conan from the actual Robert E Howard stories is a fairly well-spoken and intelligent man, which tends to take moviefags and people that assume he's this dumb "Hulk smash"-type person by surprise when they actually read them.
>"Rinaldo is largely responsible," answered Prospero, drawing up his sword- belt another notch. "He sings songs that make men mad. Hang him in his jester's garb to the highest tower in the city. Let him make rimes for the vultures.">Conan shook his lion head. "No, Prospero, he's beyond my reach. A great poet is greater than any king. His songs are mightier than my scepter; for he has near ripped the heart from my breast when he chose to sing for me. I shall die and be forgotten, but Rinaldo's songs will live for ever."This is not what Joe Blow with a very rudimentary familiarity with Conan expect him to talk.
