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This content will cover topics like Anglo-Saxon history and Beowulf, the history and future of warfare, Robert Greene's works on human nature, and philosophical concepts like Stoicism and logic. It will also explore criminal psychology and deduction, with occasional short stories featuring William Scott, PI."
Tolkien’s Beowulf: The Wages of Heroism
Beowulf stands at a fascinating intersection of mythology, history, and theology. The poem is not just a relic of the past but a powerful meditation on the blending of pagan heroism with emerging Christian ideology. How did the poet reconcile the old world of gods and monsters with the new framework of divine providence? Were Grendel and his mother truly "adversaries of God," or was this merely the Christianization of older pagan figures?