HW: Elric and OJ

[Andrew A. Apold]

>I spent Saturday night watching Live Chronicles for the umpteenth
>time and noticed something that I missed before.  I am almost sure
>that at one point, Moorcock calls him "Elric the womanslayer"" and
>then he says Elric   ...  "killed the only two mortal women he ever
>loved".   This seems to be very dubious behaviour for the hero of
>a chronicle???
>
>Martyn
>
>PS I just checked the lyric file and confirmed this

Elric was called this in the books, too, though usually not to his face.
With Cymoril, Ykkroon threw her at him and Stormbringer twisted in
his hand and took her soul.  It loved taking those he cared for the most.
As for Zarozinia, she had been horribly warped by the forces of chaos
at the time.

Elric is probably better described as an anti-hero.  He was specifically
designed as an anti-Conan.  Conan was huge, muscular, distrusted
and feared sorcery, and fought all his life to win a kingdom.  Elric
was thin, weak, a superb sorcerer, and started with a powerful
empire that he basically threw away, then returned to burn to the ground.