Trolls (Tolkien)

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The trolls are a fantastic race that in the works of the British writer J. R. R. Tolkien are described as enormous creatures, about four meters tall, with exceptional strength and little intelligence. In the novel The Hobbit they turn to stone when exposed to the Sun. Their conception is clearly based on the trolls of Norse mythology.

In Tolkien's books it is narrated how they were created by Melkor (also called Morgoth) during the Ages of the Stars, because he wanted a race as powerful and strong as the gigantic Ents (the Tree Shepherds). Trolls are evil beings, who like to eat raw meat, preferably. During the Third Age of the Sun, Sauron created the Olog-hai from the Trolls. They were trolls, with the same strength and evil, but much more intelligent and immune to sunlight. They used to fight armed with big hammers.

Types of trolls

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Tolkien uses different terms to refer to trolls, classifying them somehow into different types.

Stone Trolls: this type of troll becomes a stone when exposed to sunlight, just as it happens to the trolls that Bilbo finds on the way in his adventure narrated in The hobbit. They can speak and use a clumsy form of common language.
Trolls of the mountains: they are described as the assassins of Arador, chief of the northern Montaraces, and grandfather of Aragorn. Tolkien describes the trolls of this region, including the three of The hobbit, like stone trolls, suggesting that the trolls of the mountains can be a subclass of stone trolls or an alternative term to refer to them. However the army of the west fought with "trolls of the Gorgoroth Mountains" that could move in the light of the day on the black gates, then deducting that the trolls of the mountains are rather Olog-hai more than stone trolls.
Cave Trolls: they were seen in Moria. They are described with dark green scales and black blood. His skin was very strong, so much that Boromir tries to hurt one of them in an arm in the battle in the mines of Moria, but only gets his sword torn apart because the troll did not receive any damage. However Frodo manages to hurt him using his Dardo dagger (Aguijón).
Olog-haiThey are "strong, agile, ferocious, and cunning" created by Sauron, and did not affect the light of the sun.
Snow Trolls It is a term to name the trolls that were in the northern part of the Earth (Arda), that is, in Arador, when the witch of these lands took possession of the Orders that dwell there. Snow trolls are created when the witch is attacked in Draukdûr, then he attacked with his legions of snow trolls. They are of great height, but not like that of a common troll, but probably about 3 meters, and are of white skins, and with wide shoulders and almost without neck.
Trolls of the hills: are part of the saga of The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for the Middle Earth II, game of Electronic Arts, and also part in the book about Arador, but very rarely appear, it is only known that they are of colossal heights.