When reading this very dense article, there was a lot that really stands out in regards to Tolkien and his works. I have left the page number out, purposely.
“Nearly all the censure, and most of the praise, that has been bestowed upon The Beowulf has been due either to the belief that it was something that it was not. ”
This was something that really stuck out to me, mainly because this can relate to Bilbo Beggins in The Hobbit. Bilbo seemed like an ordinary Hobbit to his friends and all the people he met along the way, but by the end of it, he really showed a different, and better side of himself. Also, you can relate this to how Tolkien intended his book to be for children, but was it really? The way this story truly plays out is how characters become a character they never intended to be and it always took people by surprise. However, the praise for Tolkien’s novel, The Hobbit, was believed to be what it was, it the characters ended up being what they weren’t, especially with his dense character development for specific characters in his book. Beowulf was looked more differently to Tolkien than anyone else because he saw a true meaning behind it than just the hero’s, and I think that’s where Bilbo really fits into this. He seems normal and kind of a weird fit in with all of these people, but once acknowledged for all of his things, it really becomes evident that he was something other people had originally thought he was not. By comparing the poem and Bilbo would really have no use to this, but it just shows how Tolkien took his works and really brought out the true meaning of Beowulf and the significant of the seemingly insignificant.
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