He cuts the dragon in the belly to reduce the flames, and Beowulf deals the fatal blow. Meanwhile, his kinsman Wiglaf scolds the other members of the troop for not going in to help, before coming to Beowulf's aid. Beowulf tells his men to stay outside, that this fight is his alone, but the dragon proves too strong and mortally wounds Beowulf. Beowulf and a troop of men leave to find the dragon's lair. The creature attacks the neighboring towns in revenge. Fifty years pass with Beowulf in charge, when a local dragon is angered when a slave enters its lair and takes a cup from its treasure. 5.2 Tolkien, 1936: The Monsters and the CriticsĪfter his battles against Grendel's mother and Grendel, Beowulf returns home and becomes king of the Geats.The scene is structured in thirds, ending with the deaths of the dragon and Beowulf. The dragon itself acts as a mock "gold-king" one who sees attacking Beowulf's kingdom as suitable retribution for the theft of just a single cup. The fight with the dragon symbolizes Beowulf's stand against evil and destruction, and, as the hero, he knows that failure will bring destruction to his people after many years of peace. The dragon fight, near the end of the poem, is foreshadowed in earlier scenes. Tolkien's The Hobbit (1937), one of the forerunners of modern high fantasy. The Beowulf dragon was adapted for Middle-earth in J. Although the Beowulf dragon exhibits many existing motifs common to Germanic tradition, the Beowulf poet was the first to combine features and present a distinctive fire-breathing dragon. Beowulf is the first piece of English literature to present a dragonslayer. This depiction indicates the growing importance and stabilization of the modern concept of the dragon within European mythology. When the dragon wounds Beowulf fatally, Wiglaf attacks it with his sword, and Beowulf kills it with his dagger.
He and his thanes climb to the dragon's lair where, upon seeing the beast, the thanes flee in terror, leaving only Wiglaf to battle at Beowulf's side. When the angry dragon mercilessly burns the Geats' homes and lands, Beowulf decides to fight and kill the monster personally. On his return from Heorot, where he killed Grendel and Grendel's mother, Beowulf becomes king of the Geats and rules wisely for fifty years until a slave awakens and angers a dragon by stealing a jewelled cup from its lair. The final act of the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf includes Beowulf's fight with a dragon, the third monster he encounters in the epic. Beowulf battles his nemesis, the dragon, shown in a 1908 illustration by J.
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