Wynkoop English 12 10/8/14 Beowulf Rough Draft In the epic Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf, Wyrd decides the whole tale. Grendels fate was to be a ‘bad guy’, whereas Beowulf was destine to be the hero. Both Beowulf and Grendel have followed the Anglo-Saxon code ‘an eye for an eye’, justifying their actions. God allowed the creation of both Beowulf and Grendel; the assumption will be made that The Anglo-Saxons eventually followed something similar to predestination. Grendel, “a fiend out of hell” (9
audience's eye. Although there are some similarities between Beowulf the epic and the movie Beowulf and Grendel, there are numerous factors that differ. The differences that stood out most are the differences in the character’s levels of complexity and why the movie needed to include extra characters that were not involved of the epic. One character that obviously has the most difference in complexity is Beowulf. In the epic the people, including Beowulf himself, think of him as more of a God, while in the
background in the 1930’s included a series of lectures about Beowulf, and he became very well known for them. According to Colin Duriez (author of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Making of a Legend), undergraduate and postgraduate students were entertained and influenced by Tolkien’s reading of Beowulf. According to a letter sent to Tolkien in his later years, “the voice was the voice of Gandolf” (Duriez 135). Tolkien was able to communicate Beowulf in a way that made a profound impact on students. The