A legendary mead hall has been built. Called Heorot, it is a place of feasting and revelry. It's also got a really REALLY bad neighbor. The monster Grendel does not enjoy living near Heorot and has a ...

In The Legacy of Heorot, by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes (Simon and Schuster, 352 pp., $17.95), 200 men and women scientists work to colonize Tau Ceti Four–a planet light years from ...

The new film version of Beowulf is upon us, directed by Robert Zemeckis, and starring Anthony Hopkins, John Malkovich, Angelina Jolie, and Crispin Glover, with Ray Winstone as Beowulf. Zemeckis, whose ...

Beowulf TV Series coming. SyFy Channel is working on live-action version of the 3182 line poem Beowulf as a TV series. No actors or actresses have been cast as the show is in its very early stages.

In 1926, J.R.R. Tolkien, one of fiction’s finest crafters of fantasy worlds, translated the 11th-century epic “Beowulf.” Nearly 90 years later, his son Christopher Tolkien is releasing an edited ...

What does Beowulf have to say to us today? Among other things, that life inevitably turns chaotic and that death waits for us all, Jacob Howland writes in The New Criterion: The only good thing to be ...

“Beowulf” does not translate well into Hollywoodese, to judge by the new sex-sword-and-dragon epic of that title starring Anthony Hopkins, Ray Winstone and Angelina Jolie. But it does translate well ...