What are your impressions of Beowulf??
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Beowulf is the longest and greatest surviving Anglo-Saxon poem. The setting of the epic is the sixth century in what is now known as Denmark and southwestern Sweden.\n\nI have found 9 Beowulf summaries for you to look at, via the links below. \n\nhttp://www.freebooknotes.com/book.php3?id=44\n\nhttp://education.yahoo.com/homework_help/cliffsnotes/beowulf/5.html\n\nhttp://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/\n\nhttp://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/Beowulf.html#Top\n\nOnline Versions of the Epic\n\nhttp://homepage.mac.com/mseffie/assignments/beowulf/beowulf.html\n\nhttp://csis.pace.edu/grendel/projs4a/be1.htm\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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Helm's Deep,\nLord of the Rings the two towers. very poignant as well in regards to Tolkien's first world war trench experience and the death of the elf (can't spell his name and don't want lynched) dying in such a way to show the horrible losses of battle!!!\n\nwww.geocities.com/filmmounts for authentic and cheap LOTR and many other movies meorabillia
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I have two more movies to watch that I rented. I already watched The Brothers Grimm, not too bad, pretty cool how they included a lot of things in the movies that had to do with fairy tales. Now I have left The Constant Gardener and The Village. \nOther than that, it's too cold to go outside, just staying in, locked to the internet and alternately playing Morrowind:The Elder Scrolls III.
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I show it to my Classical Civilisation class and it does follow the basic story. Most of the bits are in order and they all follow the basic plot. The best bits are Circe, Calypso and the Suitors Challenge. What it wont help you with is learning about Homer's use of language and story telling as you wont be reading it in his words. He mentions lots of other myths and legends that arent in the film version.\nOverall, I thought that the film was really good. It gives you visual help with the way that the book is plotted and helps to flesh out the characters. (PS Cyclops is really funny!).
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Beowulf , written in Old English sometime before the tenth century A.D., describes the adventures of a great Scandinavian warrior of the sixth century.\n\nThere a lot of sites on Beowulf on the net, like:\nhttp://www.lone-star.net/literature/beowulf/\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf\nhttp://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/english016/beowulf/beowulf.html\nhttp://www.library.unr.edu/subjects/guides/beowulf.html
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That poem rocks.  I know that it is controversial.  I would be interested to see what people thought of a choice line or two from the poem.
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In the book... Faramir.  Hands down. He's an outlaw, but on the side of good.  He wears green! That part where he comes out of the forest and meets the hobbits is one of my favourite parts.\n\nAlso, Eowyn. She's so damn cool in the book, disappointed in love, she goes out to fight for good and her family honour. I was quite disappointed by her portrayal in the film, she was too sulky and not shining enough!  \n\nOtherwise... Treebeard!   And I have to say it always disappoints me (although I understand it) that they don't have Tom Bombadil in the films...\n\nIn the films... hmmm harder, because Peter Jackson doesn't concentrate on character so much as epic story and effect.  That's not necessarily a criticism.  I have to say I liked Legolas, even though Orlando Bloom isn't a great actor in my book.\nGandalf was cool, but a little bit lame when he became Gandalf the White.\n\nBut Boromir wins, because Sean Bean was awesome, and that's the best screen death ever. EVER I say. :D
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I'll agree with the person above me: just about as logical as Christianity, only a bit more fun...I'm not into Asatru, but I'm a Norse Mythology nut so I run across references to it quite a bit.  I'm especially fond of some of the similarities between Ragnarok and Armageddon...
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http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/bwulf11h.htm\n\nThe Gutenberg Project has a lot of the classic texts on the Internet.  \n\nI think Google has the full version on its search engine - a little easier to read\n\nhttp://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0451527402&id=CcMDLQSuecIC&q=Beowulf&prev=http://books.google.com/books%3Fq%3DBeowulf
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http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/2005-June/012974.html  you shoud find something there.
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I liked it and thought it was quite good and imaginative.  The only thing I didn't think was plausible about it was the name for your mother, as it does not fit in with common names of Roman or Greek goddesses.  Sorry.  Other than that, here are just a few editing suggestions for you.  Feel free to take them or leave them, as this is your story, after all.  \n\nedit: (I had anger issues at the time).\nreplace with: \nI guess you could say I had some anger issues at the time.  (makes it sound more playful)\n\nIn the sentence after that, reword it so that it doesn't use the words "many different plagues, many different disasters" repetitively.  \n\nedit: I also tried to destroy the world, but my mother brought this curse upon me first"--you should just change it to brought *A* curse upon me first (flows better).  \n\nedit: "Unfortunately for me, I always cause some sort of trouble in each of my lives, whether I'm using my magick for evil, or just being naughty and mischievous."  replace it with that, because it'll flow better.\n\nedit:  As many people know, it's forbidden for a goddess to love a mortal, but I still went to down to earth, pretended to be human and tried to make him fall for me. \nreplace with:\nNaturally it's forbidden for a goddess to love a mortal, yet I went down to earth anyway so that I could pretend to be a human and make him fall for me.  (flows better)\n\nSorry, I get very focused on editing.  Good luck, and it's very creative.  I enjoyed reading it.
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Here you go ;]. All from the first chapter.\n\n1.] NOW Beowulf bode in the burg of the Scyldings\n2.] Heorogar, then Hrothgar, then Halga brave;\n3.] high in the hall: there harps rang out\n4.] for a light to lighten the land-dwellers,\n5.] and braided bright the breast of earth\n6.] with limbs and leaves, made life for all\n7.] march-riever mighty, in moorland living,\n8.] in fen and fastness; fief of the giants\n9.] Ill fared his feud, and far was he driven,\n10.] weary while: but their wage was paid them!
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It is very good, a classic, I would read it over and over again. Many children love it, most likely you will too!\n\nHave Fun Reading An Awesome Book!
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Great film  ! ! ! \n\nthe virgins in the tower ... and Sir lancelot's being saved aganst his will  !!!! looooooool !!!!\nThe rabbit and it's throat attacks\nthe knight at the bridge and his flesh wounds ! ! !\n\nIt's just too funny !!!!\n\nBut make sure you see 'The Life Of Brian' , It's even better    §;^)
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I was a strange child who had the entire Grimm's collection - my favourite story was the girl with silver hands.  Her father made a deal with the devil, she had to be filthy so the devil could snatch her, but her tears kept washing her hands so dear old dad chopped them off - then nobody wanted her so she got thrown out, wandered into a prince's garden and he fell in love and got her some silver hands.\n\nYou'd think that would be the happily ever after, right?  But the story kept going, including some murders and other lovely things.  :)  Fairy tales that haven't been edited for content are great!
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Yeah. It's really good. If you liked Tolkien, you'll probably like this, though Tolkien's writing style is more developed (this is normal, as he had a degree in and taught philology, the study of language). The only thing about Eragon that is a little hard is the long parts of description (as with Tolkien) but it is a very good story.
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I can't really say because we read it in play form in my English class and I played Tybalt so I kinda feel like I shouldn't dis him.\n\nI don't have the play right in front of me but I think he's arranged for them to get married but this will later become Wednesday after Juliet apologizes to Capulet for being so against him; he thought it was because of Tybalt's death but it was because Romeo was banished for killing Tybalt.\n\nHe describes her as still beautiful even though she may be dead (which she isn't). He says something about the color of roses not being gone from her lips or something like that.\n\nThe agony Romeo and Juliet's death caused their families was tremendous and showed their families that fighting was not the answer to things. The loss of one's only child is not worth the dumb excuse of fighting between families.\n\nShakespeare never gave anyone birthdates in the play since it didn't really matter, but we can estimate that Romeo was about 17 or 18 from accounts of historians who examined the play with great care.