"Tweel, I think I've spied an unrecorded world! Come take a look!"

By the time you get to this point in the book, a few things have become glaringly clear to you. One is that every game of D&D you have ever played owes a gigantic debt to Beowulf . Another is that the only people who might possibly find this book boring are obviously people who don't like Tolkien, or video games, or fun .

That my skeletal remains might commingle / With a dire wolf's bones