The Legend of the Condor Heroes

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Name:	Condor Trilogy
Abbreviation(s):	LOCH
Creator:	Jin Yong
Date(s):
Medium:	Cdrama, Novel
Country of Origin:	China
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The Legend of the Condor Heroes is a wuxia C-drama based on a famous novel by Professor Jin Yong, who is sometimes called Chinese Tolkein due to the effect of his works on the genre.

Canon

Novel

English Translation

I think fundamentally my reservations about this are linked to how excited we all were as a fandom when we heard there was going to be a Big Undertaking Official Translation TM, and they’d gotten people to consult on it and it was going to be so great! and how we so hoped it would be better than the fan translation we’d worked on and then it came out and all the air got sucked out of the sails with how badly it seemed to like, misrepresent this book to an English speaking audience. And it kind of prods the long hurt of what Jin Yong (and more generally wider Chinese media) fandom has kind of been experiencing for decades. That our classics aren’t…respected or really treated well by people who want to “introduce them to a wider audience”.

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Influences on other works

MXTX has cited Jin Yong's works as one of her greatest inspirations (cite).

Example Fanworks

Fanart

• fan art (2017 adaptation)

Meta

• someone stop me from writing an essay about the themes of LOCH being commonly misunderstood by later works

Links & Resources

• The Legend of the Condor Heroes novel at Wikipedia
• 1983 Hong Kong and 2017 Mainland China television adaptations at Wikipedia
• 2017 Cdrama at MyDramaList
• The Legend of the Condor Heroes at GoodReads