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Overview

Trolls are fictional characters in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, and feature in films and games adapted from his novels. They are portrayed as monstrously large humanoids of great strength and poor intellect. In The Hobbit, like the dwarf Alviss of Norse mythology, they must be below ground before dawn or turn to stone, whereas in The Lord of the Rings they are able to face daylight. Commentators have noted the different uses Tolkien made of trolls, from comedy in Sam Gamgee's poem and the Cockney accents and table manners of the working-class trolls in The Hobbit, to the hellish atmosphere in Moria as the protagonists are confronted by darkness and monsters. Tolkien, a Roman Catholic, drew back from giving trolls the power of speech, as he had done in The Hobbit, as it implied to him that they had souls – confronting him with a sentience dilemma, so he made the trolls in The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings darker and more bestial. They were supposedly bred by the Dark Lords Melkor and Sauron for their own evil purposes, helping to express Tolkien's combination of "fairy tale with epic, ... bonded with the Christian mythos". Appearances The Hobbit

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Notable quotes

“Trolls, it is said, were bred by Melkor because he desired a race as powerful as the giant Ents, the Tree-herds.”
— David Day in Tolkien : The Illustrated Encyclopaedia (1993), p. 226
“They were trolls. Obviously trolls. Even Bilbo, in spite of his sheltered life, could see that: from the great heavy faces of them, and their size, and the shape of their legs, not to mention their language, which was not drawing-room fashion at all, at all.”
— J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit (1937), Chapter 2: "Roast Mutton"
“Trolls are slow in the uptake, and mighty suspicious about anything new to them.”
— J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit (1937), Chapter 2: "Roast Mutton"
“Trolls simply detest the very sight of dwarves (uncooked).”
— J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit (1937), Chapter 2: "Roast Mutton"
“'Now is the time!' cried Gandalf. 'Let us go, before the troll returns!'”
— J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring (1954), Book II, Chapter 5: "The Bridge of Khazad-Dûm"
“Trolls are only counterfeits, made by the Enemy in the Great Darkness, in mockery of Ents, as Orcs were of Elves.”
— J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers (1954), Book III, Chapter 4: "Treebeard"

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Trolls are fictional characters in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, and feature in films and games adapted from his novels. They are portrayed as monstrously large humanoids of great strength and poor intellect. In The Hobbit, like the dwarf Alviss of Norse mythology, they must be below ground before dawn or turn to stone, whereas in The Lord of the Rings they are able to face daylight.

Overview

Trolls are fictional characters in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, and feature in films and games adapted from his novels. They are portrayed as monstrously large humanoids of great strength and poor intellect. In The Hobbit, like the dwarf Alviss of Norse mythology, they must be below ground before dawn or turn to stone, whereas in The Lord of the Rings they are able to face daylight. Commentators have noted the different uses Tolkien made of trolls, from comedy in Sam Gamgee's poem and the Cockney accents and table manners of the working-class trolls in The Hobbit, to the hellish atmosphere in Moria as the protagonists are confronted by darkness and monsters. Tolkien, a Roman Catholic, drew back from giving trolls the power of speech, as he had done in The Hobbit, as it implied to him that they had souls – confronting him with a sentience dilemma, so he made the trolls in The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings darker and more bestial. They were supposedly bred by the Dark Lords Melkor and Sauron for their own evil purposes, helping to express Tolkien's combination of "fairy tale with epic, ... bonded with the Christian mythos". Appearances The Hobbit

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Not who you're looking for? Others named Trolls: 2016 animated film directed by Mike Mitchell · soundtrack album · American computer-animated franchise · video game from early 1990's

Notable quotes

“Trolls, it is said, were bred by Melkor because he desired a race as powerful as the giant Ents, the Tree-herds.”
— David Day in Tolkien : The Illustrated Encyclopaedia (1993), p. 226
“They were trolls. Obviously trolls. Even Bilbo, in spite of his sheltered life, could see that: from the great heavy faces of them, and their size, and the shape of their legs, not to mention their language, which was not drawing-room fashion at all, at all.”
— J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit (1937), Chapter 2: "Roast Mutton"
“Trolls are slow in the uptake, and mighty suspicious about anything new to them.”
— J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit (1937), Chapter 2: "Roast Mutton"
“Trolls simply detest the very sight of dwarves (uncooked).”
— J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit (1937), Chapter 2: "Roast Mutton"
“'Now is the time!' cried Gandalf. 'Let us go, before the troll returns!'”
— J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring (1954), Book II, Chapter 5: "The Bridge of Khazad-Dûm"
“Trolls are only counterfeits, made by the Enemy in the Great Darkness, in mockery of Ents, as Orcs were of Elves.”
— J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers (1954), Book III, Chapter 4: "Treebeard"

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

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