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...'[[:Category:Dungeons and Dragons|Dungeons & Dragons]]'' roleplaying game. Trolls speak Giant. ...ce and combat tactics, and are often used as random wilderness encounters. Trolls can easily kill a party if the adventurers don't have enough firepower.

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...e said to reside in the underground world of Svartálfaheim. They, like the trolls, are often correlated with the dvergar ("dwarves") and their home is often ...ythologic entities does arise over time, for example in the stories of the trolls (ogre-like beings that are also confused with dwarves).</blockquote>

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...to boss around. Ogres are closely related to [[Troll (Dungeons & Dragons)|trolls]], and are distantly related to the various races of [[Giant (Dungeons & Dr

...Bilbo's adventures in the wild Ettenmoors region (where he met three angry trolls) just north and west of Rivendell.

..."jotun" survives in modern Norwegian as giant (though more commonly called trolls), and has evolved into jätte and jætte in Swedish and Danish. In modern I ...[wikipedia:Nancy Farmer (author)|Nancy Farmer]]'s ''[[wikipedia:The Sea of Trolls]]''.

...jólasveinarnir'' or ''jólasveinar'') are the sons of the mountain-dwelling trolls [[Grýla]] and [[Leppalúði]] in Icelandic folklore. [[Category:Trolls]]

...storm god Thor was credited with lightning strikes against the jotun|giant trolls, in the form of his hammer.)

...onal recognition, and in modern fantasy literature and role-playing games, trolls are featured to the extent of being stock characters. [[Image:John Bauer 1915.jpg|thumb|256px|Trolls with an abducted princess (John Bauer, 1915).]]

<blockquote>"A long, long time ago two trolls, Jata and Kata, stood on the shores of the Great Lake brewing a concoction

...ic), the love of a human child, or from malice. Some people believed that trolls would take unbaptized children. ...Everyone advises the human mother to brutalize the changeling so that the trolls would change children once more. However, the woman refuses to treat the in

...fought for Lapland, the demons killed the male trolls and raped the female trolls, who were killed, too, so that no crossbreed could ever be born. But there ...cies, having inherited the physical strength and connection to nature from trolls and the powers over the minds of both living and dead from the demons.

...orks of fantasy fiction, such as Terry Pratchett's ''Discworld'' series ([[Trolls (Discworld)#Gargoyles|Discworld gargoyles]]) and the ''[[Dungeons & Dragons

*[[Do not feed the trolls]]

...nomes have been more interbred than other Gnomes and associate freely with trolls. They are much larger than the other types and have an infinately more nast ...r who are simply to poor to afford a vetrinarian. Their enemies are mainly Trolls, and other beings who would try to destroy them or their homes. Otherwise,

...s from Japanese folklore, variously translated as demons, devils, ogres or trolls.

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* ''A Book of Ogres and Trolls'' by Ruth Manning-Sanders contains 13 fairy tales.

...omorians are described as larger than men and the source of the legends of Trolls.

...of the Horde, an association of races made to help their mutual survival. Trolls, a similar species in the game, live in the same area as the orcs in World ...categorized as homo sapiens robustus, and are considered metahumans, like trolls, elves, and dwarfs. Orks are able to interbreed with humans and fellow meta

Ogres and trolls are constantly trying to whip them into an organized army, and some have ev ...leaders like greater demons, dragons and powerful practitioners of magic, trolls and ogres are the most likely to keep goblin minions in check and motivated

...ht of the Gods, breaking it with their weight and so destroying the world. Trolls figure in Ibsen's ''Peer Gynt]''as 'nationalist' creatures that view their

...y seen by professor Pronin in Soviet Pamir. But the majority of these poor trolls into exile have established themselves in Himalaya, where they only risk be

...d and the Prince of Aragon'', ''Young Ronald'', and Paul Bunyan. Ogres and trolls are humanoid creatures, sometimes of gigantic stature, that occur in variou

...rial and immaterial, well known to traditional societies as, for instance, trolls, brownies, fairies, kobbolds and so on, but discredited by modern Western c

...ly were of a much different image: tall, angelic beings and short, wizened trolls being some of the commonly mentioned fay. The small, gauzy-winged fairies

...roliferation of similar game systems, such as ''RuneQuest'', ''Tunnels and Trolls'', ''Traveller'' (sci fi), and Arduin. Despite this competition, ''D&D'' h