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| The truth about Grendel; I've discovered what Grendel really is! | |
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| Topic Started: Aug 31 2010, 10:40 AM (3,648 Views) | |
| Holben | Sep 1 2010, 01:47 PM Post #16 |
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England isn't cold! It's comfortably warm. Even in winter. And we have one of the smallest differences between winter and summer temperatures in Europe, even when currents magnify the difference.
Prehistoric examples include plateosaurus(generally prosauropoda), and possibly some crocodilians But bears. |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| Practically Uninformed | Sep 1 2010, 02:00 PM Post #17 |
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But bears only stand on 2 legs, don't they? I haven't seen any video of a bear running around like a man. |
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| Holben | Sep 1 2010, 02:04 PM Post #18 |
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They can kind of stumble forward on their hind legs. |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| Scrublord | Sep 1 2010, 02:16 PM Post #19 |
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Quadruped? Carnivorous? Sonar? I think I know. . . Grendel was a Future Predator! |
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| SIngemeister | Sep 1 2010, 02:33 PM Post #20 |
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I made them a kind of Troll in mine. Which are kind of gorilla dinosaurs. Apart from river trolls. Which are goblin shark-diplocaulus things. |
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| Pando | Sep 1 2010, 02:46 PM Post #21 |
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Obey or I'll send you to the moon
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Here's an interpretation of Grendel:![]() I always pictured them similar, although with sliver fur, a longer snout, and when chased can run quadrupedal. IDK why, that's just how I pictured it. |
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| Ddraig Goch | Sep 1 2010, 03:36 PM Post #22 |
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Ar hyd y nos
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The latest film adaptation of Beowulf pictured Grendel as some sort of grotesque disformed human.![]() I loved that film. It had giant one-eyed sea-worms in it as well.
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| Practically Uninformed | Sep 1 2010, 03:45 PM Post #23 |
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...oh my. I've always seen him as a somewhat stereotypical ogre (humanoid, possibly horned, large build, etc.), but his mother being a hulking yet wispy giantess of a monster. From a biological standpoint, though, his kind may be sapient Gigantopithecus. Edited by Practically Uninformed, Sep 1 2010, 03:46 PM.
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| SIngemeister | Sep 1 2010, 04:03 PM Post #24 |
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Does this remind you of anything? |
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| dialforthedevil | Sep 1 2010, 04:14 PM Post #25 |
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Well im flattered Ddraig but mines slightly bigger
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| Practically Uninformed | Sep 1 2010, 04:28 PM Post #26 |
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"...the sea cucumber, with its one eye, blinking and blinking, looking at Rolf like a sandwich-! ...Am I boring you, Edd boy?" |
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| Carlos | Sep 1 2010, 05:26 PM Post #27 |
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Adveho in me Lucifero
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It reminds me of the arid precipice of human existence - alas poor Glycon -, the bane of the sour dreams of Neoptolemeus, the bacchian principle of the stagnation of the truth, and the urgent necessity to end the tyranny of adonaists, otherwise Tartarus will come unto Midgard and end the will of enjoying the realm of Khaos. |
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| Practically Uninformed | Sep 1 2010, 06:08 PM Post #28 |
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...so is the display of our intellects, I suppose. |
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| Spartan Delta | Sep 2 2010, 09:08 AM Post #29 |
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EXACTLY! People then didn't know how to describe things as well, so I'm sure they'd still associate the bipedal standing as him being man-like. And I didn't necessarily say it had to be Ambulocetus. Heck, it could be any of the proto-whales in that line. I know that known proto-whales didn't have that type of body - I wasn't arguing otherwise. I was just saying that it's possible that Grendel could be one that did. I mean, there aren't any crocodilians with that gait alive today, and here we have Egyptians worshiping a bipedal crocodile god. So why would a biped whale be so unreasonable?
Nope. Grendel's semi-aquatic. Remember, they live in a lake? But as a matter of fact, I did look to Primeval in designing Grendel's mother. For her, I imagined something like a Mer, but with reduced hind legs and larger. And in fact, the poem says that the lake was on fire during the night, and that might be interpreted as a glow... ...I think Primeval fans can see where I'm going here. |
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| Practically Uninformed | Sep 2 2010, 09:20 AM Post #30 |
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I think I do... ...GRENDEL'S A TIME LORD! |
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