Thanks.

Yeah it is a great scene. If I were to write a detailed critical work about the movie (something akin to a college paper), I might make it about how the film functions as a very rare example of an atheist fantasy (the other examples I would point to are the novels that Game of Thrones is based on but not the show itself). That is Crom never really helps Conan because the gods are not real. The other way one could go with it is that the movie is a right wing propaganda film. It follows pretty well given that it is a John Milius film. In that case, one could see the riddle of steel as a pro-gun message but I don't necessarily take that position lol.