Ich habe Babel damals auch erst in Blutschwerter-Forum vorgestellt. In meinen Augen sind die Jungs dort etwas zu sehr in ihren Ansichten festgefahren. Will heißen: Alles was nicht ihrem Geschmack entspricht ist gleichzeitig schlecht. Die kommen nicht auf die Idee, dass es Leute geben kann die durchaus Lust auf so etwas haben und betrachten entsprechend alles sehr Einseitig.
Ausnahmen bestätigen natürlich die Regel. Ich hoffe ich trete mit dem Post niemandem auf die Füße. ;)
Jedenfalls habe ich daher auch aufgehört es zu lesen.
Back to Topic: Du hast ja eh eine recht Grobschlächtige Welt ala Conan geplant. Wenn man bedenkt das Howard und Lovecraft nicht nur ihre ersten Kurzgeschichten im gleichen Magazin publiziert haben sondern scheinbar echt dicke Amigos waren, ist es auch nicht verwunderlich dass der Mythos beider Autoren so extreeemst artverwandt ist.
Und gerade weil er so artverwandt ist, sollte es doch (verdammt nochmal!) möglich sein das zu konvertieren.
Also ... Drann bleiben :D. Meinen Daumen hast du! :d
The Lovecraft Circle
In August 1930 Howard wrote a letter to Weird Tales praising a recent reprint of H. P. Lovecraft's "The Rats in the Walls" and discussing some of the obscure Gaelic references used within. Editor Farnsworth Wright forwarded the letter to Lovecraft, who responded warmly to Howard, and soon the two Weird Tales veterans were engaged in a vigorous correspondence that would last for the rest of Howard's life.[77][78] By virtue of this, Howard quickly became a member of "The Lovecraft Circle", a group of writers and friends all linked via the immense correspondence of H.P. Lovecraft, who made it a point to introduce his many like-minded friends to each other and encourage them to share stories, utilize each other's invented fictional trappings, and help each other succeed in the pulp field.[79] In time this circle of correspondents has developed a legendary patina about it rivaling similar literary conclaves such as The Inklings, the Bloomsbury Group, and the Beats.[nb 7]
Howard was given the affectionate nickname "Two-Gun Bob" by virtue of his long explications to Lovecraft about the history of his beloved Southwest, and during the ensuing years he contributed several notable elements to Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos of horror stories (beginning with "The Black Stone", his Mythos stories also included "The Cairn on the Headland", "The Children of the Night" and "The Fire of Asshurbanipal"). He also corresponded with other "Weird Tale" writers such as Clark Ashton Smith, August Derleth, and E. Hoffmann Price.[80][81]
The correspondence between Howard and Lovecraft contained a lengthy discussion on a frequent element in Howard's fiction, barbarism versus civilization. Howard, probably based on his experience of the oil boom in Texas, held that civilization was inherently corrupt and fragile. This attitude is summed up in his famous line from "Beyond the Black River": "Barbarism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is a whim of circumstance. And barbarism must always ultimately triumph." Lovecraft held the opposite viewpoint, that civilization as the peak of human achievement and the only way forward.[82] Howard initially deferred to Lovecraft but gradually asserted his own views, even coming to deride Lovecraft's opinions (such as his support for fascism).[78]
In 1930, with his interest in Solomon Kane dwindling and his Kull stories not catching on, Howard applied his new Sword-and-Sorcery and Horror experience to one of his first loves: the Picts. His story "Kings of the Night" depicted King Kull conjured into pre-Christian Britain to aid the Picts in their struggle against the invading Romans, and introduced readers to Howard's king of the Picts, Bran Mak Morn. Howard followed up this tale with the now-classic revenge nightmare "Worms of the Earth" and several other tales, creating horrific adventures tinged with a Cthulhu-esque gloss and notable for their memorable use of metaphor and symbolism.[28][70][83]
With the onset of the Great Depression, many pulp markets reduced their schedules or went out of business entirely. Howard saw market after market falter and vanish. Weird Tales became a bimonthly publication and pulps such as Fight Stories, Action Stories and Strange Tales all folded.[84][85][86] Howard was further hit when his savings were wiped out in 1931 when the Farmer's National Bank failed and, after transferring to another, the second bank failed as well.[83]
PS: Hast du was dagegen wenn ich dich im ICQ adde? Würde mich über einen generellen Meinungsaustausch freuen.