• annotated list of over 300 translations and adaptations, withdrawn in 2019. By 2020, the Beowulf's Afterlives Bibliographic Database listed some 688 translations...
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    This is a list of translations of Beowulf, one of the best-known Old English heroic epic poems. Beowulf has been translated many times in verse and in...
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    Beowulf (/ˈbeɪəwʊlf/; Old English: Bēowulf [ˈbeːowuɫf]) is an Old English epic poem in the tradition of Germanic heroic legend consisting of 3,182 alliterative...
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  • Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary is a prose translation of the early medieval epic poem Beowulf from Old English to modern English. Translated by...
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  • and Roger Avary. It is based on the Old English epic poem Beowulf, and featuring the voices of Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, Robin Wright Penn, Brendan...
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  • 2016 Marvel series where Beowulf appears. List of artistic depictions of Beowulf § Comics Beowulf (disambiguation) Beowulf (First Comics) at the Comic...
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    the dragon) in the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf (c. 700–1000 CE). Grendel has been adapted in a number of different media including film, literature...
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  • translations and adaptations of the poem. A 2011 survey of Beowulf translations termed it "one of the most enduringly popular of all translations of the poem"...
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    Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf (c. 700-1000 CE); she is never given a name in the text. Grendel's mother has been adapted in a number of different media, including:...
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  • Many adaptations of The Lord of the Rings, an epic by the English author J. R. R. Tolkien, have been made in the media of film, radio, theatre, video games...
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    accounting of history rather than being composed as works of fiction, such as Beowulf, The Tale of the Heike and the Kojiki of similar are not listed here,...
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    J. R. R. Tolkien (category Academics of the University of Leeds)
    Tolkien's 'Beowulf'". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on 30 May 2014. Carpenter 1977, p. 143 Ramey, Bill (30 March 1998). "The Unity of Beowulf: Tolkien...
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  • and professional philologist, drew on the Old English poem Beowulf for multiple aspects of his Middle-earth legendarium, alongside other influences. He...
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  • Medieval periods of history. His depiction of weapons and armour particularly reflect Northern European culture as seen in Beowulf and the Norse sagas...
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  • Éomer (category The Lord of the Rings characters)
    from Beowulf, a work that Tolkien had studied extensively. Despite the evident Old English connection, Tolkien denied that Éomer and the Riders of Rohan...
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    Mordor (redirect from Sea of Rhun)
    was very familiar with is the account of the monster Grendel's unearthly landscapes in the Old English poem Beowulf. Others have observed that Tolkien depicts...
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  • Old English literature (category CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list)
    period, of which about 189 are considered major. In addition, some Old English text survives on stone structures and ornate objects. The poem Beowulf, which...
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  • Grímur Jónsson Thorkelin (category Academic staff of the University of Copenhagen)
    James Matthews to transcribe the sole extant manuscript of the Old English epic poem Beowulf and made another copy himself. Matthews did not know Old...
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  • English literature, especially from Beowulf, shape the ancient world which Bilbo stepped into. Tolkien, a scholar of Beowulf, counted the epic among his "most...
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  • what they presume are sources of Tolkien's inspiration, including the dragon in Beowulf, who is provoked by the stealing of a precious cup, and the speaking...
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  • (1997) What Lies Beneath (2000) Cast Away (2000) The Polar Express (2004) Beowulf (2007) A Christmas Carol (2009) Flight (2012) The Walk (2015) Allied (2016)...
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  • Boromir (redirect from Falls of Rauros)
    ship-burial in Beowulf. Boromir appears in animated and live-action films of Lord of the Rings, and in radio and television versions. Boromir is the son of Denethor...
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    Gollum (category The Lord of the Rings characters)
    adaptations of The Hobbit and Return of the King, and by Peter Woodthorpe in Ralph Bakshi's animated film version and the BBC's 1981 radio adaptation...
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    Races 4 GURPS Traveller: Behind the Claw GURPS Traveller: Deck Plan 1 Beowulf-Class Free Trader GURPS Traveller: Deck Plan 2 Modular Cutter GURPS Traveller:...
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    in Beowulf. Within the plot of The Lord of the Rings, Rohan plays a critical role in the action—first against the wizard Saruman in the Battle of the...
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    Gerard Butler (category Alumni of the University of Glasgow)
    projects that followed include Dear Frankie (2005), The Game of Their Lives (2005) and Beowulf & Grendel (2005). In 2006, he starred as Spartan King Leonidas...
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  • Balrog (section Adaptations)
    Balrog's flaming whip. Abbott makes a connection, too, with the Beowulf poet's account of the monster Grendel: he notes that Tolkien wrote that Grendel...
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  • The 13th Warrior (category Films based on Beowulf)
    1976 novel Eaters of the Dead, which is a loose adaptation of the tale of Beowulf combined with Ahmad ibn Fadlan's historical account of the Volga Vikings...
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    Unferð (category Characters in Beowulf)
    In the Old English epic poem Beowulf, Unferth or Hunferth is a thegn (a retainer, servant) of the Danish lord Hrothgar. He appears five times in the poem...
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    literature, especially the epic poem Beowulf, and made many uses of it in The Lord of the Rings. For example, Beowulf's list of creatures, eotenas ond ylfe ond...
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