my lego moc-beowulfs final duel
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Short summary of Beowulf:
Hroðgar, the king of the Danes
Help! There's a dragon!
Beowulf
Here, let me get that.
(He kills the dragon and it's kid for good measure)
(time passes)
The Dragon
Ha! I'm not dead yet!
Beowulf
The heck you are.
(He kills the Dragon again. And dies.)
Your scene is nice, if a bit simplistic. The landscaping seems to be done a bit at random, some more coherence would be good. Building the dragon out of bionicle is good idea, since it improves poseability. However, the end result still seems a bit unpolished. If you can't build the dragon out of black alone, maybe make it black plus red? Also, I think some claws would work wonders to make him more menacing.
Hroðgar, the king of the Danes
Help! There's a dragon!
Beowulf
Here, let me get that.
(He kills the dragon and it's kid for good measure)
(time passes)
The Dragon
Ha! I'm not dead yet!
Beowulf
The heck you are.
(He kills the Dragon again. And dies.)
Your scene is nice, if a bit simplistic. The landscaping seems to be done a bit at random, some more coherence would be good. Building the dragon out of bionicle is good idea, since it improves poseability. However, the end result still seems a bit unpolished. If you can't build the dragon out of black alone, maybe make it black plus red? Also, I think some claws would work wonders to make him more menacing.
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It's been quite a few years since I read Beowulf, but as I recall the dragon that Beowulf faced at the end had no connection to Grendel or Grendel's mommy.
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Wasn't the dragon the son of Beowulf and Grendel's mom? I have only read the novel version, so I could be wrong.Bruce N H wrote:It's been quite a few years since I read Beowulf, but as I recall the dragon that Beowulf faced at the end had no connection to Grendel or Grendel's mommy.
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I have heard that that is how it is in the recent movie, but that's not at all how it is in the original. In the original, Beowulf slays Grendel and Grendel's mother in Denmark, where Hrothgar is king. Much later, Beowulf has become king back home in Geatland, and some dragon starts terrorizing his people, so he goes and kills it (with some help from his homie Wiglaf) and is mortally wounded in the process. The end.Luís wrote:Wasn't the dragon the son of Beowulf and Grendel's mom? I have only read the novel version, so I could be wrong.
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That's really creepy, a human and a troll mother... uh.... you know... and they get... a dragon? weird....Luís wrote:
Wasn't the dragon the son of Beowulf and Grendel's mom?
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Suposedly in the novel the father would play a major part in the child. Hrotgar was Grendel's daddy and he turned out like a troll. In the novel Beowulf's son is just like his mommy, but can turn into a dragon. It is advised in the novel that we should read the original first, but because I had nothing to do and was gifted the book I read the novel first.Jansen wrote:That's really creepy, a human and a troll mother... uh.... you know... and they get... a dragon? weird....Luís wrote:
Wasn't the dragon the son of Beowulf and Grendel's mom?
And on topic, great moc davesteel.
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Sounds like the novel and the movie have little in common with the original Beowulf story. Sibley has it right regarding the events of teh original story though. No connection between Grendel, Grendel's Mother or the Dragon. I read almost all of it in Old English. Fun read. Old English was a language written to tell stories in... so mant descriptive words!
Sounds like the novel/movie are trying to show how the 'heroes' are responsible for their own problems and the problems around them by their weakness. Not sure I like that take as while they clearly have their own character in the original version. The tie to Grendel and the Dragon are non existent in the origins and just like happens in real life, unrelated until they come into the equation causing problems. Sounds like more of the feel bad for the bad guys stuff... it’s not his fault he is a bad person he was made that way, it is outside his control yadda yadda yadda. Sorry Rant off.
As far as the MOC Looks pretty straight forward but from the pictures I have a hard time seeing the background details.
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Sounds like the novel/movie are trying to show how the 'heroes' are responsible for their own problems and the problems around them by their weakness. Not sure I like that take as while they clearly have their own character in the original version. The tie to Grendel and the Dragon are non existent in the origins and just like happens in real life, unrelated until they come into the equation causing problems. Sounds like more of the feel bad for the bad guys stuff... it’s not his fault he is a bad person he was made that way, it is outside his control yadda yadda yadda. Sorry Rant off.
As far as the MOC Looks pretty straight forward but from the pictures I have a hard time seeing the background details.
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Where did you learn to read Ye Olde English? Was the original Old English or Anglo-Saxon?Heir of Black Falcon wrote:I read almost all of it in Old English. Fun read. Old English was a language written to tell stories in... so mant descriptive words!
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I studied Old English for my MA several years ago. I hoped to read the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in the original language but never got around to it.
Beowulf was originally written in Old English.
The Angles and Saxons spoke Old English, also called Anglo-Saxon at times. It dies out during the 12th century more or less. Middle English then takes over until the 16th where it becomes just... English I suppose.
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Beowulf was originally written in Old English.
The Angles and Saxons spoke Old English, also called Anglo-Saxon at times. It dies out during the 12th century more or less. Middle English then takes over until the 16th where it becomes just... English I suppose.
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