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View Quote Trolls, it is said, were bred by Melkor because he desired a race as powerful as the giant Ents, the Tree-herds.

View Quote David Day in Tolkien : The Illustrated Encyclopaedia (1993), p. 226

View Quote Assume good faith. This is so easier said than done ;/ But for real, assume good faith. When someone asks a question and you think they are trolling, it’s entirely possible they are not. (Maybe they are 15 years old, or their English is imperfect, or they have an impairment of some kind.) Even if they are trolling: there will always be onlookers who don’t know it, and who, whatever the provocation, will recoil if you are curt or unkind. Trolling also gives you an opportunity to equip onlookers with reasonable arguments that they can go on to use themselves.

View Quote Sue Gardner A little guide to working with online communities March 21, 2016

View Quote The folk belief … is that lightning seeks out trolls and giants, perhaps a reflection the giant-slaying of Thor in Old Norse mythology. Many informants have told collectors that the reason the giants or trolls are no longer populous is the accuracy and efficiency of the lightning strokes.

View Quote John Lindow, in Swedish Folktales and Legends (1978), p. 89

View Quote Senator Stampingston: Gentlemen, it's clear that we're in a universally precarious situation. Dethklok has summoned a troll.General Crozier: That's impossible, there's no such thing as trolls.Senator Stampingston: Then how do you explain the dead unicorns?

View Quote Metalocalypse, Dethtroll, episode 1.04 (2006)

View Quote 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.

View Quote J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit (1937), Chapter 2: "Roast Mutton"

View Quote Trolls are slow in the uptake, and mighty suspicious about anything new to them.

View Quote J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit (1937), Chapter 2: "Roast Mutton"

View Quote Trolls simply detest the very sight of dwarves (uncooked).

View Quote J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit (1937), Chapter 2: "Roast Mutton"

View Quote Trolls do not build.

View Quote J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring (1954), Book I, Chapter 12: "Flight to the Ford"; said by Strider.

View Quote 'Now is the time!' cried Gandalf. 'Let us go, before the troll returns!'

View Quote J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring (1954), Book II, Chapter 5: "The Bridge of Khazad-Dûm"

View Quote Trolls are only counterfeits, made by the Enemy in the Great Darkness, in mockery of Ents, as Orcs were of Elves.

View Quote J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers (1954), Book III, Chapter 4: "Treebeard"