Tolkien's description of the trolls in Appendix F "Of Other Races" in The Return of the King Ĭave trolls attacked the Fellowship in Moria. They spoke little, and the only tongue that they knew was the Black Speech of Barad-dûr. Unlike the older race of the Twilight they could endure the Sun, so long as the will of Sauron held sway over them. Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race, strong, agile, fierce and cunning, but harder than stone. That Sauron bred them none doubted, though from what stock was not known. Olog-hai they were called in the Black Speech. Jennifer Eastman Attebery, a scholar of English, states that the trolls in The Hobbit "signify the uncouth". They had vulgar table manners, constantly argued and fought amongst themselves, in Tolkien's narrator's words "not drawing-room fashion at all, at all", spoke with Cockney accents, and had matching English working-class names: Tom, Bert, and William. The trolls captured the Dwarves and prepared to eat them, but the wizard Gandalf managed to distract them until dawn, when exposure to sunlight turned them into stone. In The Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins and the Dwarf company encountered three trolls on their journey to Erebor. 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. 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, so he made the trolls in The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings darker and more bestial. 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.Ĭommentators 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.
They are portrayed as monstrously large humanoids of great strength and poor intellect.
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