trolls

Article in Forbes (website)...read it while you can; there is no paywall for it (at the moment) The Real Reason Tolkien Fans Can’t Stand ‘The Rings Of Power’—It’s Not Just ‘Trolls’

How did Glamdring, Orcrist, and Sting make their way from Elf territories in Beleriand to a troll cave in Eriador? If, for example, Turgon used one of these swords during the Fall of Gondolin in the First Age, and then Gondolin (being located in Beleriand) was submerged as Middle Earth was...

There has been a lot of discussion about these issues both in this forum and on other internet platforms. Quora's question and answer bot claims that there are no trolls and wargs in dagor-nuin-giliath and dagor aglareb. According to bot source Wargs first appeared in the Dragor Bragollach war...

What was corrupted to create trolls? In the appendices it says they where made in a mockery of ents, but are they corrupted ents?

I just think it is kinda silly how so many people have this huge problem with Orcs as an all evil group when we got Troll, Stone Giants, Dragons, Ungoliant Spawns and the list goes on. Now yes if somebody were to ask me what the most vile type of creature in middle-earth is it would be the...

I am sure this one has been on everyones mind, and it has been on mine for many years. It is actually insane how three very stupid trolls had Orkrist, and maybe the most famouse swords of all, Glamdring in their possesion. As everyone knows Glamdring used to belong to Turgon King of Gondolin...

While reading the Hobbit to my second-to-youngest brother, I found it really interesting that while orcs, hobbits, elves, dwarves, etc. have creative names, the three trolls are named Bert, William and Tom - basic English names. Why do y'all think this is so, and is this significant?

P.S. Vale tudo is MMA rule allowing attacking private parts. So...the setting is a troll with empty hand VS a Noldor elf or a pure Numenorean, regardless of all kinds of other requirements such as combat experience and so on, and in a caged MMA fighting ground. So...who would win? Any source or...

The only stuff I got was nothing but Pippin killed record in the battle of Black-Gate with a seemingly unskillful combat technique. Any other sources of how Free People military personnel handle combat against trolls?

As title, any direct or implied sources from JRRT, about how to take down these beasts? Trolls had better be faced by firepower due to their size and horrible close combat power, but what if engaged personnel were out of ammo? Of course, those already known can be discussed further, such as the...

In WW2 films (made by the allies) we often come across the "good German" usually in the Wehrmacht/German Navy rather than SS/Gestapo. In Tolkien's oeuvre we come across men/elves/dwarves (even hobbits?) who are seduced by the dark side but I can't think of any orcs/goblins etc who can be called...

I haven't really thought about this and I would like it cleared up now that I do think about it. In The Hobbit, the three trolls turn into stone because of their bickering lasting far too long and they were exposed to daylight. But in the Lord of the Rings (I haven't finished yet so I'm going...

Hey new Friends :cool: In the Hobbit east of the Shire from Bilbo's journey the party encounters three trolls. They are turned to stone by the rising sun. I have two questions: 1.) In the 1977 movie they show (and the trolls note that) Gandalf bringing the sun's morning light before dawn...

Look out, I am French. Don't use terms I will not understand please. I'm writing a book on The Hobbit. I have a question: Is there anybody who can tell me how to caracterize the accent of the Trolls : they say YER instead of YOU. I don't think it's a cockney accent. Is it scottish ? Old...

Well? Are trolls another of Melkors nasty creations? It would seem strange if they are, for often they have to be whipped and beaten by the orcs to get them to do what they are told. One would think that Morgoth would have bred a rather more obediant race to be his beasts of burden and siege.

The Hobbit Ch.2: "...Bilbo plucked up courage and put his little hand in William's enormous pocket. There was a purse in it...Trolls' purses are the mischief and this was no exception. 'Ere, 'oo are you?' it squeaked, as it left the pocket; and William turned round at once and grabbed Bilbo by...

I was thinking..(either the second or third tome I saw ROTK :D ) about trolls. You see. In FOTR it took the ENTIRE fellowship to fell ONE troll, but in ROTK at the siege od Gondor there were the trolls pushing the little things with the orcs in them and the trolls(in armor) busting in the gate...

right, people who have read the hobbit know that trolls turn into stone, when in contact with day light. right the know to the battle with the troll atr moria. it says that the sunlight it shining on the grave of the dwarf (balin is it) so why did the cave troll turn to stone, or did he...

Remember when Bilbo tried to pick the troll's pocket, and there was some kind of critter in there guarding the troll's wallet that squeaked " 'Ere! Oo are You!"? What was that critter?

Are trolls made from the rocks of the mountains?