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<blockquote data-quote="Doug McCrae" data-source="post: 4873000" data-attributes="member: 21169">I think Cadfan is essentially correct about REH's Conan, he certainly has enough info to decide whether he wants to read the stories or not.Conan gets naked or strips to his loincloth a lot compared to other protagonists in adventure fiction. He doesn't even have Tarzan's excuse of being raised by apes. His muscular body is described in a fair bit of detail by the author. The word thews is used: &quot;Conan struck as a wounded tiger strikes, with every ounce of thew and fury behind the blow.&quot; - Jewels of Gwahlur&quot;his was the endurance and vitality of a wolf, his thews steeled and his nerves whetted&quot; - Queen of the Black Coast&quot;he had held too many women, civilized or barbaric, in his iron-thewed arms, not to recognize the light that burned in the eyes of this one.&quot; - QotBCStirring stuff, eh? There's a lot of violence in the stories. Skulls are split in twain many times:&quot;the lion was dead, its slanting skull split in half&quot; - The Tower of the Elephant&quot;I drew my sword and cleft the judge's skull&quot; - QotBCThe fighting isn't realistic. Conan is ridiculously strong, his blows are&nbsp; constantly tearing through armour, ripping men's bodies apart and shattering skulls.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Doug McCrae, post: 4873000, member: 21169"] I think Cadfan is essentially correct about REH's Conan, he certainly has enough info to decide whether he wants to read the stories or not. Conan gets naked or strips to his loincloth a lot compared to other protagonists in adventure fiction. He doesn't even have Tarzan's excuse of being raised by apes. His muscular body is described in a fair bit of detail by the author. The word thews is used: "Conan struck as a wounded tiger strikes, with every ounce of thew and fury behind the blow." - Jewels of Gwahlur "his was the endurance and vitality of a wolf, his thews steeled and his nerves whetted" - Queen of the Black Coast "he had held too many women, civilized or barbaric, in his iron-thewed arms, not to recognize the light that burned in the eyes of this one." - QotBC Stirring stuff, eh? There's a lot of violence in the stories. Skulls are split in twain many times: "the lion was dead, its slanting skull split in half" - The Tower of the Elephant "I drew my sword and cleft the judge's skull" - QotBC The fighting isn't realistic. Conan is ridiculously strong, his blows are constantly tearing through armour, ripping men's bodies apart and shattering skulls. [/QUOTE]

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