Beowulf & Grendel2005

Beowulf:
Has this thing, this troll, killed any children?

King Hrothgar:
No.

Beowulf:
Women? [Hrothgar shakes his head] Old men?

King Hrothgar:
What are you saying? That he fights with a clean heart? He kills the strongest first. He shows us he can kill the strongest. Who cares if he spares the children? They'll die anyway without fathers.

Beowulf:
My wits still war with how this all began.

King Hrothgar:
Hate for the mead hall. I can only guess. The night we finished it the foul creep came.

Beowulf:
So, nothing was done to the troll itself?

King Hrothgar:
Oh, Beowulf, it's a f***ing troll! Maybe someone looked at it the wrong way.

Beowulf:
Some Dane?

King Hrothgar:
...I never begged anyone to come here. Take on our fight. I don't hold you here.

Beowulf:
I know you don't.

King Hrothgar:
Then don't sour my heart with talk about why a troll does what a f***ing troll does!