Robert E. Howard's Cimmeria

A piece I shot and cut - my own interpretation of Robert E. Howard's classic sonnet, Cimmeria. I only used scenery from the landscapes that inspired the poem - the region in Gillespie county, Texas near Enchanted Rock and from Howard's own town of Cross Plains. I envision it being somehow incorporated into a larger, feature length film/documentary on the life of Howard and his life in the West Texas of the early 20th century. Any criticism and feedback is appreciated. The video quality, because of internet compression, is not pristine, so my apologies.

copyright: 2009 WarriorPhotog Prod.

Category:

Film & Animation

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• Robert E. Howard
• Howard
• REH
• Cimmeria
• Conan the Barbarian
• Conan
• Texas
• Texas scenery
• Cimmerian
• Enchanted Rock
• West Texas
• Texas writers
• Texas authors
• Southwestern literature

[warriorphotog36]

I very much agree with you. It's certainly one of my favorites - obviously. Please take a look at my reshoot of this piece. It's also on my youtube channel. It features alot more atmospheric and cloudy weather to fit with his actual moody language. Would like to hear what you think! Thanks for watching!

[useahammer]

The reading was really quite good. You have a great voice. The only thing is the images don't fit the description very well. The images you used look like the southwest of the US. Cimmeria was in Scandinavia.

[warriorphotog36]

Thanks for the kudos! This was my first version. Some other people agreed with you that the images didn't match well, but because it was too sunny. Please hop back on my youtube channel and watch Cimmeria version 2. I reshot everthing on a cloudy, misty day. That being said, actually this area where I shot WAS Cimmeria. The poem which Howard wrote, according to notes that he left behind, was inspired by seeing this exact area of Texas on a misty day.

[warriorphotog36]

I have never heard that theory before, though I think the Greek mythological Cimmerians were in that area. Howard's Cimmerians were the ancestors of the celts in his mythology. That's the reason he used Conan, a celtic name, for his Uber Cimmerian. However, his sonnet, Cimmeria, was inspired by this region of Texas near Fredericksburg. He actually mentioned as an intro to the poem, that this area around Enchanted Rock on a misty day back in the 30's inspired him to write the sonnet.

[seonidh]

Cimmeria roughly was ment to lie across Scotland to Denmark the boooks used to have a supoerinposed map of Europe over the ancient map of Howards fantasy world. Also Howard included the Pictish Wilderness and the Picts were one of the founding nations of Scotland.

[warriorphotog36]

@seonidh

Yeah Cimmeria was roughly in that area. The Cimmerians were the ancestors of the celts in Howard's mythology. That's the reason he used Conan, a celtic name, for his Uber Cimmerian. However, his sonnet, Cimmeria, was inspired by this region of Texas near Fredericksburg. He actually mentioned as an intro to the poem, that this area around Enchanted Rock on a misty day back in the 30's inspired him to write the sonnet.

[DarfVlad]

Excellent video, excellent. Thank you for uploading it. REH would approve, as would his immortal Cimmerian. Well done

[BGwindsMoon]

@useahammer Read your Howard a bit more carefully . He even said himself that the Cimmerians desendants are Scottish !!!!!!!!!!

[kraichgaufrank]

One of my favorite Howard poems, as I always thought that Cimmeria was as much a reflection of the darkness and sadness inside of Howard, as it was the prehistoric land of his fiction.

[inphasesith]

death is cheap in cimmeria

[useahammer]

Yes, I understand the inspiration came from this scene, but inspiration doesn't constitute how it was changed in his extremely vivid imagination. For example;when I was very small child, I was playing in a puddle of mud with a stick, but in my extremely vivid imagination, I was in a very distant land with a spear watching the jungle for signs of life.

[Stonegolem42]

@warriorphotog36 's not a sonnet, it's blank verse.

Sorry . . . /snobbery