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Grendel loves the darkness, in fact, he cannot stand light at all. He is a powerful monster "living down in darkness." The song "Hiding In Darkness," by WhoMadeWho is about that exactly. When dawn comes Grendel is "filled with gloom," and "morning nails his eyes." Grendel is only fit to dwell in the dark of night. He hides in the darkness just like what the song is about. The song also has a ridiculing tone just like Grendel. Grendel laughs and crumples over when seeing how badly the Danes are defending against him. King Hrothgar even hides in a corner. The song says "stop hiding you feel it isn't right come out into the darkness." This is something Grendel would say to tease and make fun of King Hrothgar while he hides in the corner. Grendel is "so hungry for darkness" as the song says which is why I chose it to be the song Grendel would listen to. The menacing, ridiculing tone makes it an ever better song for Grendel to listen to. And then it's about loving darkness! Can the song really fit any better?

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Katie Grace Brake from the 6th period class posted a quote by Stephen King as a connection to the theme of darkness. The quote she posted reads "Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the end only darkness." I think this quote is perfect for the theme darkness. Directly in the quote it says "in the end only darkness," which is something the reoccurs in many of our assignments. Something that also reoccurs in out assignments is that it cannot be stopped. The darkness is unavoidable and consumes everything. The quote also says exactly that except that darkness is a by product of time. "Time takes it all whether you want it to or not." Unavoidable, unstoppable, and powerful. This is what the quote shows about darkness and is also something we connected to darkness during our exploration of unit 2.

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http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/06/02/slaying-monsters

J.R.R. Tolkien (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) was very interested in "Beowulf" and many other literature works. Tolkien was so interested in "Beowulf" that he decided to translate it from Old English to our modern day language. He knew Old English very well and taught it at Oxford specifically with the first half of "Beowulf." Because he was clearly able to accurately translate the text with his vast knowledge of the language and text itself, he went on and finished his translation in 1926. He was 34 when he finished this task. After finishing the translation, he chose the obvious thing to do and left it in his desk unpublished. It was not until 40 years after his death that his son, Christopher, published it only after reading and marking on it himself. His translation differs from many others in the way that it ignored what critics think the story should be like and focused more on what the story really was. Tolkien touched on this (alive and translation still unpublished) when he published "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics." It discusses how many aspects of the poem were changed in order to make a perfect story but Tolkien argued that the story was fine the way it was. The meaning was lost in all the changes, the words were swapped changing the tone, and the actual story was no longer the same. Tolkien in his translation kept the story the way it was regardless of what the critics thought. This is why the translation he wrote is so cool. It holds the true meaning of what Beowulf really was.

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When Grendel is being described I see a short humanoid, with a mane of hair on his chest, and muscular but not so much that it might interfere with the ability of being stealthy. Grendel is pale from hiding in the shadows all the time. Someone that comes to mind when these descriptions are stated is Smeagol. He is short, looks agile/ stealthy, and is as pale as pale can get. Although he is missing the hairy chest and his muscles are not as big as I see them on Grendel, Smeagol is a very good "rough draft" of what I see as Grendel. I see Grendel this why because of how passages describe him. One reads "a powerful monster, living down in the darkness." It continues with "Till the monster stirred, that demon, that fiend, Grendel." The tone when reading these lines creates a ugly evil image of Grendel as well an ugly evil monster that dwells in darkness. In another writing it describes him carrying off men, bursting in doors knocking them off their hinges, and killing many men. This all adds to my view of Grendel. Also the chest hair of Grendel is mentioned when a passage reads "my chest hair matted with dribbled blood." I just imagine him eating the flesh of his pray and the blood trickling down onto his mane of hair on his chest. This is how I view Grendel and Smeagol helps me put a face and basic figure to Grendel which is why I chose a picture of Smeagol for my entry.