ATMachine said:
My point was that Lucas apparently felt he could not use the name Picts--it was too close to something pre-existing. And given the similarity of "King Kael" to "King Kull," another Howard connection seems quite logical.
If you still don't believe that Lucas frequently took pre-existing names and lightly altered or combined them, all I can do is point you to the word "Jedi" itself.
The Jedi were originally called "Jedi Bendu" in the early scripts of SW 1977. But in fact, this name is really a combination of the first part of jidai-geki, the Japanese name for period-piece samurai films, and the second half of "prana-bindu," a set of meditative exercises mentioned in Frank Herbert's Dune.
And if that doesn't convince you, then it's obviously fruitless for me to spend any more time arguing with you.
You can stack cow-patties all you like they never turn into bricks.
You're making LOTS of assumptions. Let's follow this chain of reasoning.
- A: Lucas used the name of a real historical people in an early script.
- B: A comic adaptation called them something else.
- something something something
- C: Therefore Robert E. Howard.
or
- A: The word Jedi probably comes from samurai films
- something something someting
- B: Therefore "Arik Thaughbeaer" is clealy based on the name "Theoden"
(FYI: Since Prana Bindu is a really yoga practice, the Picts are real people and Tir Na Nog is real Celtic folklore, pointing out that it is used in another work of literature means very little as evidence)