Tolkien's monsters
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Tolkien's monsters
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Tolkien's monsters are the evil beings, such as Orcs, Trolls, and giant spiders, who oppose and sometimes fight the protagonists in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium. Tolkien was an expert on Old English, especially Beowulf, and several of his monsters share aspects of the Beowulf monsters; his Trolls have been likened to Grendel, the Orcs' name harks back to the poem's orcneas, and the dragon Smaug has multiple attributes of the Beowulf dragon.
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Evil beings in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth fiction
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date created:
2021-01-29T14:50:20Z
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2024-09-02T11:56:47Z
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