their simple minds. The Anglo Saxon and today’s modern culture differ in a multitude of ways such as in the original Beowulf epic, most characters do not develop throughout the story while in the modern movie interpretation, Beowulf and Grendel (Gunnarsson, 2005), the characters change through experiences that give characters new insight. Characters such as Beowulf, Hrothgar, and Grendel are much different in the modern story than they were when the original story was written in 1000 C.E. The characters
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