The dragon (Beowulf) with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn", says that "Beowulf"s dragon acts like "the typical dragon of Old English proverbial lore" because he guards treasure. W. P. Ker criticized the inclusion of Beowulf's fight with the dragon and his subsequent death in the poem, writing "It is as if to the end of the "Odyssey" there had been added some later books telling in full of the old age of Odysseus, far from the sea, and his death at the hands of Telegonus". In "", J. R. R. Tolkien noted that the dragon and Grendel are "constantly
Saga of the Shadow Lord does what it sets out to do perfectly adequately, and if an action-packed blood-and-thunder adventure without too much emphasis on plot and justification is your kind of thing, "Saga of the Shadow Lords" is worth looking at". Saga of the Shadow Lord Saga of the Shadow Lord is a 1986 adventure module for the Basic Rules of the "Dungeons & Dragons" fantasy role-playing game. "Saga of the Shadow Lord" consists of two linked adventures as a mini-campaign: In the first adventure called "Elvenstar", player characters try to steal a magic item from the Shadow Lord to thwart his planned invasion