Peter’s basilica, Grimnir’s saga comes crashing to an end. And finally, to the Eternal City - to Rome, itself.Īnd in Rome, on a cold November night in 1347 AD, on the ruined steps of Old St. įor over a century, he has tracked the dragon, Níðhöggr - the Malice-Striker - from the shores of Lake Vänern, across the Baltic Sea, through Russia, and down into the Mediterranean he has hounded the wyrm from Old Muscovy to Messina. And I wanted to redeem them.” - Scott Oden I wanted to write it from the Orcs’ point of view. “Since young adulthood, I’ve wanted to write a book about Orcs-those foot soldiers of evil first revealed to us in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by J. As of this writing, Scott is working on the third book, called The Doom of Odin.

February 2020 saw the publication of the second book in the series, Twilight of the Gods. After a seven year hiatus from writing, Scott returned to bookstore shelves in June of 2017 with his critically-acclaimed “Orc novel”, A Gathering of Ravens - the first in a projected trilogy of stand-alone novels featuring the savage Grimnir. Scott’s first novel, Men of Bronze, was published in 2005 Memnon followed in 2006 and The Lion of Cairo in 2010. He currently splits his time between his home in Alabama, a Hobbit hole in Middle-earth, and some sketchy tavern in the Hyborian Age. Scott was born in Columbus, Indiana, but was raised in rural North Alabama, near Huntsville. He has been an avid tabletop roleplaying gamer since 1979, beginning with Holmes-edition D&D. Howard collection, Sword Woman and Other Historical Adventures). In addition, he has written a couple of short stories, and a few non-fiction articles and introductions (notably, the introduction to Del Rey’s Robert E. Howard pastiche Conan novella “The Shadow of Vengeance”, serialized in issues #1-#12 of Marvel’s The Savage Sword of Conan, as well as the Conan short story “Conan Unconquered”, appearing in the video game of the same name. Scott is the author of five novels, two historical fiction ( Men of Bronze and Memnon), three fantasy with a strong historical bent ( The Lion of Cairo, A Gathering of Ravens, and Twilight of the Gods), and a collaborative novel ( A Sea of Sorrow: A Novel of Odysseus). Lovecraft, Fritz Leiber, Harold Lamb, Karl Edward Wagner, and Mary Renault.” - Scott Oden The circle of authors who influenced my writing grew to include Robert E. The chapters where Merry and Pippin were in the clutches of a band of Uruk-hai, or where Frodo and Sam dealt with the lads of Cirith Ungol, became my favorites. I read and re-read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and in those pages I developed an odd love that has followed me into adulthood: Orcs.

“As an adolescent with aspirations to write, my first literary hero was J.R.R.

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