In his final battle, Beowulf faces a monstrous dragon threatening his kingdom. This legendary showdown marks the end of a ...

In the case of [J. R. R.] Tolkien, for example, who studied Beowulf for 40 years — he was working on a translation for a very long time and obviously he's brilliant — but he really received ...

Beowulf, hero of the great Anglo-Saxon epic composed somewhere between the seventh and tenth centuries AD, is ultimately killed while battling a terrifying fire-breathing dragon: ...

Beowulf then has to defeat Grendel’s mother as well. The play concludes with Beowulf ruling as the King of Geats for fifty years, dying from a wound he receives from slaying a dragon. Beowulf ran from ...

The dragon featured in Beowulf has inspired many modern Western epics. Readers of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit will recognize similar traits in the talkative dragon Smaug.

The Old English epic Beowulf must be one of the most-translated poems in world literature. Some years ago more than a hundred complete versions were listed, and the flow shows no sign of stopping ...

Beowulf famously begins with an Old English word that has no ... One of the best RPG narratives ever told could have gotten a sequel from Dragon Age's creator if a single publisher had the good ...

Jeff Bridges is set to star as classic monster Grendel in a new live-action movie from the storied Jim Henson Company and director Robert D. Krzykowsk.. Palisades Park Pictures is set to launch ...