Some were described as being able to speak, while others appear to be as irrational as animals. The major weakness of at least some trolls was that they turned to stone in sunlight. Trolls were strong and vicious, but generally dim-witted. Most of the trolls present at the battle were killed, and the others are known to have fled. As a result of the One Ring being destroyed, the Black Gate collapsed into ruin during that battle. In the subsequent Battle at the Black Gate, the hobbit Peregrin Took killed a large Olog-hai troll with his barrow-blade. Sauron used Olog-hai in the Siege of Gondor and Battle of the Pelennor Fields.
As things seemed perilous, however, the trolls fled (although this was due to the approach of the balrog, Durin's Bane). Boromir's sword recoiled off the scaled hide of one troll. Rendition of an armored Mountain Troll for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the Kingĭuring the War of the Ring, Frodo and the Fellowship encountered cave trolls alongside various orcs within Moria. They even had normal names: Tom, Bert, and William (Bill) Huggins (the only one with a given surname).
While threatening, the trolls in The Hobbit serve as a comic element. They enjoyed eating anything they could get their hands on. While most trolls could not bear exposure to sunlight without turning to stone, the Olog-hai apparently could (to the same extent as orcs) this attribute was mentioned in The Return of the King as making them particularly dangerous.Ī mountain troll at the Black Gate, used for opening the gateĭuring Bilbo's quest to the Lonely Mountain, trolls were known to speak with thick Cockney accents, specifically three hill trolls who had dwelt on the Ettenmoors and moved down to the Trollshaws . They turned to stone when exposed to sunlight, for stone, as told in The Hobbit, is what trolls were originally made of. He created the Olog-hai, which were smarter than earlier breeds of trolls.
In the Second and Third Age, trolls were among Sauron's most dangerous warriors. Many trolls died in the War of Wrath, but some survived and joined the forces of Sauron, the greatest surviving servant of Melkor. They were very strong, but turned into stone in sunlight. Melkor created trolls before the First Age.
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