2004-01-20 - 11:50 a.m.
My pal and fellow tolkein scholar Arlo sent me this from barrowdowns.com :
"Trolls have their beginning far back in the dawn of the First Age
where, according to Treebeard, they were made by Morgoth in mockery of
Ents. Originally they were all dull and lumpish in nature, very
unintelligent and posessing no language. They were very strong, powerful
and extremely large in size, sometimes nearly as big as Ents. But the
early trolls had one great weakness, they could not endure the light of
the Sun. When exposed to its rays they immediately and permanently
turned to stone.
During the long years of the First Age trolls slowly evolved into at
least two different varieties: those that turned to stone in sunlight
and those that didn�t. The day-walking trolls were first witnessed in
the Nirnaeth Arnoediad where they formed the guard of Gothmog. During
that battle, H�rin was overcome after slaying seventy of the creatures,
spewing their black blood with each hew of his axe. But he was
eventually overcome as � the sun went down beyond the sea�. "
Well that clears that up. Yay for the internet.
"Fuck, my brother." -Defender of the internet
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