![]() ![]() Upon infiltrating the temple again, Conan and his trio manage to rescue the princess and deliver her out from the temple, but Doom kills Valeria by using a stiffened snake as an arrow to fatally strike her in Fortunately for Conan, he was rescued by a female brigand named Valeria and an archer named Subotai, who all agree to help Conan rescue the princess. Upon getting a mission from the old king Osric (whose daughter was kidnapped by Doom), Conan disguises himself as a priest to infiltrate into Doom's Temple of Set, but he's caught, tortured, and crucified on the Tree of Woe. As the young Conan became a gladiator after years of slavery, Conan swore to avenge his people's tragedy by killing Doom. He appeared when he and his legions invade the lands of Cimmerians for the first time, leading to a massacre of the people there including the young Conan's parents (the father was killed by Doom's dogs while the mother was decapitated by Doom with the father's sword). Additionally Sabbah's hashassans would leave daggers on the pillows of dignitaries to intimidate them as did the cult in the Conan film. In this he resembled Hassan-i Sabbah, the Nizari leader, who according to Arab sources had one of his followers leap to his death to demonstrate his power to visiting dignitaries. For example, in one scene, after Thulsa Doom commands one of his female followers on a high ledge to come to him, she jumps off the ledge to her death. In the movie he is shown to have an extraordinary command of his followers. This Thulsa Doom/Thoth-Amon hybrid appears to have been re-imagined as a cult leader in the manner of the real life demagogues that had popped up in the decade previous to the film's release like Charles Manson or Jim Jones. ![]() As such, he appears as an ordinary human in the film, though one said to have lived for a thousand years and with the power to transform into an enormous snake. Pre-production drawings showed this version of Thulsa Doom with the skull-like face, but as filmed, he is essentially the classic Conan villain Thoth-Amon, servant of the serpent-god Set. ![]() This Thulsa Doom is considerably different from the literary one, who is described as having a skull-like face. He is portrayed by James Earl Jones who also voiced Darth Vader. Howard and has since appeared in comic books and film as the nemesis of Kull, and later, one of Howard's other creations, Conan the Barbarian. He first appeared in the Kull short story " Delcardes' Cat" by Robert E. He is a very powerful and ruthless undead sorcerer and Conan's arch-nemesis being the one responsible for the murder of his parents. Thulsa Doom is the main antagonist of the 1982 film Conan The Barbarian. ![]()
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