weekly paragraph LOTR and Beowulf

What happened in LOTR was very interesting the Frodo and his friends stumbled across a misterious character named Tom Bombadil, I thought it interesting the way they described how Tom Bombadil was in middle earth for such a long time even before middle earth, and it was really interesting how he not only knew about the ring but was also not affected by it when Frodo handed it to him. The characters have now been led through the forest by Tom and told to travel to an inn titled the Prancing Pony.

As far as whats goin on in Beowulf, Beowulf has just defeated Grendels mother with a sword that ony Beowulf could use, since the sword given to him proved to be no match for that type of battle. After defeating grendels mother Beowulf brought back the head of Grendels moth which may lead you to believe that maybe Beowulf never killed grendels mother. Hrothgar awarded Beowulf many prized possessions for his brave acts and was saddened to see Beowulf go, but Beowulf knew his place was with the geats.

weekly english assignment beowulf

I have already read a version of beowulf in highschool but I have to say that so far I am enjoying Seamus Heaney version more. The book being very descriptive especially in the scene where Beowulf fights Grendel, makes me think just how cool it would be if they made another movie, but this time make it with real people and not animated and make Peter Jackson the director. Reading the book I cant help but notice how Beowulf resambles the greek hero hercules and think maybe that's where the original story teller got his or her inspiration.

first blog Lord of the Rings

throughout what I've read of lord of the Rings it became evident that the movie differs so much from the book. There is so much tremendous detail in the book and it leaves me guessing after every page. I'ts amazing to me to find out the number of years that go by in the book. The movie of course had to cut out alot but I didn't know it was to that extent. Thus far not much has accured in the book besides Frodo and his friends leaving the Shire, but I have a feeling that the story is about to get very interesting. It is still unclear about the where abouts of Gandalf, and the characters have just run into a misterious character named Tom Bombadil