This is very well done. Your cadence is perfect. The accents for the characters made them feel unique. You're really, really good at this. Thanks so much!
It is well done, but spoken by another. IP FREELY EDITED THE video. This audiobook was endorsed by M. M.. I think I first heard it on cassette tape in 1983. I believe there was an entire cast of voice actors.
@@michaelevans3904this audiobook is no more than two years old at best so you couldn’t have heard it in the 80’s. The only dramatized MM stories I’m aware of are Corums.
@bradfowler4472 The reader does fine but his Hawkmoon is outright horrible. Hawkmoon is German, not English, but here he sounds like a bad English stereotype
Ive read so many books in my life, fantasy being my favorite genre. This is my first time with these stories, and by far I think Elric may be my favorite character ever. Thank you for these, in this dark time I needed a good story, and cant believe Ive never read or listened to these.
Elric is great, and MM's other Eternal Champions are good too, though I've only got around to reading the Corum and Hawkmoon books so far, but there's a bunch more.
I spent 18 months as a teen collecting as many Eternal Champion tales as I could find. Elric of Melnibone' was out of print at the time (before the internet) and by the time I found a second hand copy, along with full sets of Corum, Hawkmoon, Bastable, Elric, Jerry Cornelius and Erekose, E of M had been reprinted and so i got a new copy to boot, eventually resulting in a collection of over 50 volumes. Then I read the lot in sequence over several months, and have reread the lot since. One of the earliest and best uses of the Multiverse and as pivotal to my fantasy history as Howard's Conan, and Tolkien himself. Blood And Souls For Arioch
Excellent work, the narration is wonderful. I've been reading Elric and the champion Eternal novels for over 50 years. I don't have time to read them now, but I love listening to them while I'm working Etc
I've just started listening to this second installment of the chronicles of Mr Tall, Pale and Interesting (totally loving this by the way) and have yet to hear more dark, eldritch and slightly asthmatic Elder God breathing. Have I escaped them? Or are they still out there,just waiting? Plotting in the shadows and twisted dark angles of other nearby unearthly dimensions.........god I've got to stop falling asleep listening to Lovecraft!!!!
This is one of the best in terms of expressing the notion of the multiverse in literary terms. Some of the events in this story are repeated in other stories but from the perspective of the other eternal champions. As far as literary conceits go, it is a riveting tool
I do feel like the writing is simple at times but honestly I'm really liking the series so far. Just finished the 1st book and I definitely intend to (hopefully) listen the the rest of the core books and then the other in-betweeners
An really mindblowing plot to start out, mustve really amazed folks back on the sixties with such a complex, unique storyline with fighting gods on multiple planes of reality and multiple aspects of the eternal champion combining together to make one powerful being, that was wild stuff, epic scale. Wasnt what i was expecting, it was pretty stunning imagery and concepts.
Yeah I'm here because of a razorfist TH-camr rant about the comparison between elric and geralt but I gotta say if anyone copied this IP it's magic the gathering
I'd always intended to start reading Elric saga at some point but i just never did for some reason.i knew of it as of Hawkmoon,which i did read some of and collected the comics series that had beautiful artwork. So, for some reason recently something triggered my interest in Elric as it seems i keep being reminded of him,like his name or image pops up all the time through different means,or M.Moorcocks name comes up. So when i started watching some interviews with Moorcock from back in the 60s and at other times later and so I looked to see what audiobooks were available. i started researching on the chronology of the saga to make sure i was going through them at the correct order. Its interesting story, i knew only a little pieces of. I was surprised there is so much offered about the Moorcock books on here as some other authors like Ludlum and Necroscope series are nonexistent pretty much. I found The Keep on here a few years ago but i think it has been deleted.
@@wileyschmittes, Wilson, it was slipping my mind. I was going to find a used paperback of it but then found someone posted the audiobook of it on youtube with a somewhat cryptic title i guess to fool the watchers who delete some things of they dont have some permission or other. i listened to it a few years ago and it was a great story. Much better in original form than the movie adaptation. That got me into finding out about Wilson's stories and he has an Eternal champion guy also that wends around through the books helping people and fighting evil.
Hear me i beg... And you can see how much Sai King draws into his dark tower tale from Moorcock's eternal champion Elric of Melniboné. the son of Gilead himself roland Deschaine, he of the line of Eld, is but a traveler in the world's between worlds with a pair of rose handled guns and sometime with the horn dropped by a fallen brother. He travels the path of the beam... In search of the dark tower.
Please keep going its awesome to have these in audio, Moorcock needs to be much more known about, why have these not been adapted to TV aka Game of Thrones?
@@elucidation3064 there are shows already out there that show it can be done, needs the right people behind it, but yeah, there is nothing else like it!
Elric is why I'm often disappointed with movie portrayals of magic. Morcock's magic was unsettling and difficult and slow and very costly and something you'd much rather avoid using. Elric never waved a stick and a latin primer, or danced a cute kata.
Why didn't anyone tell me that the main character teams up with alternate universe versions of himself to defeat a multiverse-level threat, or that they end up fusing into an eldritch monstrosity to have a kaiju battle?!
I uploaded book 4 because there was already an version of book 2 & 3 on TH-cam at the time, but then someone asked (very politely too) about book 2 and I assured them that I would eventually upload it, and since they were so nice and appreciative about it I made sure to get this one up sooner. Book 3 will be next, but I don't have too many opportunities to record something that long without there being too much potential background noise (but hopefully in the next week or two).
@@slasher0630 I fully agree. I need to check out the swords trilogy. I don't recall ever reading those, but I may have years ago. Do they stand up to the quality of the Elric Saga?
@@Interstellarpinecone that's a tough one to answer because I'm aware that Moorecock wrote all three novels in like a week lol that's no exaggeration. He put more time in Elric. The Swords Trilogy (there are two of them so a saga of 6 books) is about Corum, who is in this book. I really love them as they are extremely fast paced, filled with lore, concepts and huge ideas, and awesome fighting and crazyness. It is lighter than Elric and I prefer that. Though if you ask me in my teens, I'd say the darker the better, so I'd be Elric all the way. But in my 30s now? No I prefer the lighter (and I use light with caution because major dark things happen) but Corum is more hopeful and less bleak about the contemplations of life as Elric is
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I've only recently gotten into the Elric, but I can say I'm loving it so far
This is very well done. Your cadence is perfect. The accents for the characters made them feel unique. You're really, really good at this. Thanks so much!
It is well done, but spoken by another. IP FREELY EDITED THE video. This audiobook was endorsed by M. M.. I think I first heard it on cassette tape in 1983. I believe there was an entire cast of voice actors.
@@michaelevans3904this audiobook is no more than two years old at best so you couldn’t have heard it in the 80’s. The only dramatized MM stories I’m aware of are Corums.
@bradfowler4472 The reader does fine but his Hawkmoon is outright horrible. Hawkmoon is German, not English, but here he sounds like a bad English stereotype
@@JimmyDaKoik its FREE Jimbob, some people are never happy
@@bobmiller7502 It’s ILLEGALLY posted and I paid for my copy so yeah, I’m gonna criticize the accent used for Hawkmoon.
Wow, what a combination of writing and reading. I read this whole series as a teen. It's really quite heady stuff.
Ive read so many books in my life, fantasy being my favorite genre. This is my first time with these stories, and by far I think Elric may be my favorite character ever. Thank you for these, in this dark time I needed a good story, and cant believe Ive never read or listened to these.
Elric is great, and MM's other Eternal Champions are good too, though I've only got around to reading the Corum and Hawkmoon books so far, but there's a bunch more.
It’s been almost 4 decades since I’ve read them. I think it’s time again.
I spent 18 months as a teen collecting as many Eternal Champion tales as I could find. Elric of Melnibone' was out of print at the time (before the internet) and by the time I found a second hand copy, along with full sets of Corum, Hawkmoon, Bastable, Elric, Jerry Cornelius and Erekose, E of M had been reprinted and so i got a new copy to boot, eventually resulting in a collection of over 50 volumes. Then I read the lot in sequence over several months, and have reread the lot since.
One of the earliest and best uses of the Multiverse and as pivotal to my fantasy history as Howard's Conan, and Tolkien himself.
Blood And Souls For Arioch
Excellent work, the narration is wonderful. I've been reading Elric and the champion Eternal novels for over 50 years. I don't have time to read them now, but I love listening to them while I'm working Etc
stick with it kidda you will finish it one day,
I have the series in two hardbound books. I read The Eric Saga back in highschool. My favorite read from that time ‼️
I've just started listening to this second installment of the chronicles of Mr Tall, Pale and Interesting (totally loving this by the way) and have yet to hear more dark, eldritch and slightly asthmatic Elder God breathing. Have I escaped them? Or are they still out there,just waiting? Plotting in the shadows and twisted dark angles of other nearby unearthly dimensions.........god I've got to stop falling asleep listening to Lovecraft!!!!
I loved reading these tales,and I really love someone reading them to me now, great narration,a fantasy masterpiece,I love you MICHAEL MOORCOCK
Excellent job❤
This is one of the best in terms of expressing the notion of the multiverse in literary terms. Some of the events in this story are repeated in other stories but from the perspective of the other eternal champions. As far as literary conceits go, it is a riveting tool
I do feel like the writing is simple at times but honestly I'm really liking the series so far. Just finished the 1st book and I definitely intend to (hopefully) listen the the rest of the core books and then the other in-betweeners
Corum of the silver hand. Definitely a good read
No disruption in audio I P Freely..., yours truly, the famed audiobook critic: I'ma Shafter.
This shit was so trippy and imaginative
Well, Michael moorcock was doing prodigious amounts of LSD at the time so...😂
Could you narrate the revenge of the rose
My personal favourite elric book.
Keep up the great stories cos we love em ❤
It’s interesting to recall this team after having read the chronicles of Corum and the hawk moon novels
Thank you 🙏🏻
I have enjoyed your books immensely 🏆👍🙏🏻
An really mindblowing plot to start out, mustve really amazed folks back on the sixties with such a complex, unique storyline with fighting gods on multiple planes of reality and multiple aspects of the eternal champion combining together to make one powerful being, that was wild stuff, epic scale. Wasnt what i was expecting, it was pretty stunning imagery and concepts.
They were mind-blowing when I read them in the 80's
Yeah I'm here because of a razorfist TH-camr rant about the comparison between elric and geralt but I gotta say if anyone copied this IP it's magic the gathering
@@Travula87 Interesting, tell us more
It's more that magic copied dnd and Gary Gygax was a huge fantasy nerd that stole cool ideas from everybody.
I havent read these since the 70s and theyre as good as I remembered.
Thank you so much for this mate! Your narration is excellent, you should be very proud!
A good way to spend break.
This was excellent. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Greatly appreciated.
I'd always intended to start reading Elric saga at some point but i just never did for some reason.i knew of it as of Hawkmoon,which i did read some of and collected the comics series that had beautiful artwork. So, for some reason recently something triggered my interest in Elric as it seems i keep being reminded of him,like his name or image pops up all the time through different means,or M.Moorcocks name comes up.
So when i started watching some interviews with Moorcock from back in the 60s and at other times later and so I looked to see what audiobooks were available.
i started researching on the chronology of the saga to make sure i was going through them at the correct order.
Its interesting story, i knew only a little pieces of.
I was surprised there is so much offered about the Moorcock books on here as some other authors like Ludlum and Necroscope series are nonexistent pretty much.
I found The Keep on here a few years ago but i think it has been deleted.
Are you referring to The Keep by F. Paul Wilson?
@@wileyschmittes, Wilson, it was slipping my mind.
I was going to find a used paperback of it but then found someone posted the audiobook of it on youtube with a somewhat cryptic title i guess to fool the watchers who delete some things of they dont have some permission or other.
i listened to it a few years ago and it was a great story. Much better in original form than the movie adaptation. That got me into finding out about Wilson's stories and he has an Eternal champion guy also that wends around through the books helping people and fighting evil.
I would swear that i wrote this myself!
Frightening how much reading we have in common.
We are well met.
Love these. Thx!
thank you
Hear me i beg...
And you can see how much Sai King draws into his dark tower tale from Moorcock's eternal champion Elric of Melniboné. the son of Gilead himself roland Deschaine, he of the line of Eld, is but a traveler in the world's between worlds with a pair of rose handled guns and sometime with the horn dropped by a fallen brother.
He travels the path of the beam...
In search of the dark tower.
I have not read all the eternal champion series.
And wondered if all the heroes have a tragic ending.
got into MM through hawkwind
Please keep going its awesome to have these in audio, Moorcock needs to be much more known about, why have these not been adapted to TV aka Game of Thrones?
My friend, I have no idea how they could possibly adapt something as crazy as this book into a show 😂
@@elucidation3064 there are shows already out there that show it can be done, needs the right people behind it, but yeah, there is nothing else like it!
They did...the whole Tayrgarian bit? Yeah that was only one thing that goober ripped off blatantly
@@elucidation3064if they can do it with Dune then anything is possible 😂😁
A video game based in this world would be so amazing. You can obviously see where Miyazaki formed ideas for Souls games.
Who is the narrator? He has a great voice.
It’s Wiley, the uploader I believe. Remarkable
@@rollerballchampion Thank you.
I think in retrospect, Corum’s journey was harder than Elric’s.
Oh for sure, poor guy had so much happen to him in the first book.
I thought Stormbringer was book 2, I'm really confused but will listen to this to see if it fits between Elric of Melnibone and Stormbringer.
Why does book two start out of nowhere? Am I trippin?
Do you have the audiobook to Bane of the Black Sword, if so will you upload it?
Yes, it was taken down but will be back on TH-cam sometime this week. I'll let you know when it is and leave you a link.
@@wileyschmitt Thank you.
@@quincycroft3323 Okay, Bane of the Black Sword is back, but Weird of the White Wolf will be back in a couple weeks.
@@wileyschmitt Thank you so much, these audiobooks are the best and I find I can't stop reading when I hear them.
Elric is why I'm often disappointed with movie portrayals of magic. Morcock's magic was unsettling and difficult and slow and very costly and something you'd much rather avoid using. Elric never waved a stick and a latin primer, or danced a cute kata.
Why didn't anyone tell me that the main character teams up with alternate universe versions of himself to defeat a multiverse-level threat, or that they end up fusing into an eldritch monstrosity to have a kaiju battle?!
Didn't want to spoil the fun
why was it taken down for sec?
Copyright issues.
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these are just straight up old dnd box cover arts. I have the furthermost left one on a1st or 2nd gen dnd box in my room XD
Any particular reason you skipped Weird of the White Wolf and went straight to The Vanishing Tower?
I uploaded book 4 because there was already an version of book 2 & 3 on TH-cam at the time, but then someone asked (very politely too) about book 2 and I assured them that I would eventually upload it, and since they were so nice and appreciative about it I made sure to get this one up sooner. Book 3 will be next, but I don't have too many opportunities to record something that long without there being too much potential background noise (but hopefully in the next week or two).
Michael Moorcock........ Lovecraft's Lovechild 😊?
It's a shame that The Witcher, a blatant and mediocre rip-off of this source material, is the one that gets chosen by Hollywood to get put to film.
Lets think here. Do we really want Hollywood versions of Moorecock novels? I fuckin don't. Let's enjoy his words in his books
@@slasher0630 That's an interesting point. With Hollywood on the decline, it would be a shame to tarnish this classic
@@Interstellarpinecone 100% plus his other books. The Swords Trilogy was my gateway. I don't want Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, or Disney anywhere near these
@@slasher0630 I fully agree. I need to check out the swords trilogy. I don't recall ever reading those, but I may have years ago. Do they stand up to the quality of the Elric Saga?
@@Interstellarpinecone that's a tough one to answer because I'm aware that Moorecock wrote all three novels in like a week lol that's no exaggeration. He put more time in Elric. The Swords Trilogy (there are two of them so a saga of 6 books) is about Corum, who is in this book. I really love them as they are extremely fast paced, filled with lore, concepts and huge ideas, and awesome fighting and crazyness. It is lighter than Elric and I prefer that. Though if you ask me in my teens, I'd say the darker the better, so I'd be Elric all the way. But in my 30s now? No I prefer the lighter (and I use light with caution because major dark things happen) but Corum is more hopeful and less bleak about the contemplations of life as Elric is
i.p. freely is a great not narrator but i think i prefer the narration of not Benjamin dover and Phillip McCrevasse
Or of Seymour Butts.
Repeated chapters 😕
I forget how utterly boring this book gets 😦
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