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The Waning Sword: Conversion Imagery and Celestial Myth in 'Beowulf'
More info and resources at: https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0190

Very bright was that sword when it was made whole again; the light of the sun shone redly in it, and the light of the moon shone cold, and its edge was hard and keen.
And Aragorn gave it a new name and called it Andúril, Flame of the West.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

Grendel by Russell Marks. © Russell Marks. All rights reserved.

Grendel’s mother by Russell Marks. © Russell Marks. All rights reserved.

In memoriam

Alan Paul Pettit

24 January 1918–15 May 1995

Hazell Macdonald Pettit

4 October 1923–16 March 2016

Robert Charles Pettit

20 June 1955–10 March 2011

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