Tolkien's "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics" Free Write

Tolkien wrote how he believed the composer of "Beowulf" intended to emphasize their nobility and the desire of the good for truth." This quote relates back to Tolkien's own works in that he too emphasized honor and fairness or doing the right thing. Arguably stemming from his time and experiences in ware, Tolkien developed a sense of wanting to do the right thing at all times because of the lack thereof that he was forced to endure. In war-time, rules and morals often get thrown out of the window because winning becomes the goal that outweighs and/or trumps everything else. Wanting the opposite of what he experienced, Tolkien incorporated honor and doing the right thing in his own novels by creating characters that attempt to save the world against all odds. Also, Tolkien mentioned something to the effect that the author of Beowulf attempted to create a work representative of their culture and history, a combination of everything. Being that there is so much scholarship regarding the many potential influences in Tolkien's works, this is probably something that the two creators share.