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They seemed a bit big to me too. Although I’m not sure to what extent that’s colored by modern interpretations. When I was a kid and had encountered less ficti
by bee_rider 1y ago
They seemed a bit big to me too. Although I’m not sure to what extent that’s colored by modern interpretations.
When I was a kid and had encountered less fiction, the image of trolls that popped into my head from the Hobbit was more like Ogres in Warhammer, Warcraft, or DnD (the portrayal is pretty consistent, something like an enormous, crude, gluttonous man-like thing).
Nowadays trolls tend to be portrayed one step further toward the animalistic side. Even in the Lord of the Rings (as distinct from
The Hobbit) they’d gotten a bit more animalistic IIRC (then again, I need to reread the books, this might be colored by the movies).
- KineticLensman 1y agoThere are very few descriptions of trolls in TLOTR. The troll that the Fellowship encounter in Moria has "a huge arm ... with a dark skin of greenish scales [and] a great, flat toeless foot". The mountain trolls who are intended to wield Grond in the siege of Minas Tirith aren't described at all. None of them are anything like the vaguely comedic trolls in The Hobbit.
- bee_rider 1y agoInteresting! I’d forgotten and, I think, entirely substituted in the movie version.