Grendel's mother you mean. But yeah, I agree with all you said. It urks me to see things like Beowulf adapted as lousy action films. And as for the Tolkien estate, I have always been quite disapointed in both Tolkien's estate, and even more so in C. S. Lewis' estate. Lewis' estate is the true shame, but I have a lot of respect for Tolkien's estate, since it is the guys family. I dislike the fact that so many of Tolkien's works that have once been published are being held back. I understand about holding back unpublished works, since someday they may be published and allowing the public to view and photocopy them could reduce their publication value to a degree. But things that have been published before, like Beowulf and other scholarly works by Tolkien, that is a real shame to me.
Grendel's mother you mean. But yeah, I agree with all you said. It urks me to see things like Beowulf adapted as lousy action films. And as for the Tolkien estate, I have always been quite disapointed in both Tolkien's estate, and even more so in C. S. Lewis' estate. Lewis' estate is the true shame, but I have a lot of respect for Tolkien's estate, since it is the guys family. I dislike the fact that so many of Tolkien's works that have once been published are being held back. I understand about holding back unpublished works, since someday they may be published and allowing the public to view and photocopy them could reduce their publication value to a degree. But things that have been published before, like Beowulf and other scholarly works by Tolkien, that is a real shame to me.