This is from The Tolkien Companion ;
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...Yet one memory has lingered with espeical clarity: the association of the Troll-race with stone, the substance of their being. Trolls bore thesame relationship to stone as Ents did to wood; of stone they were made in theri beginning, and to stone they returned if caught by the direct rays of the noonday Sun; for like the Orcs they were bred during the years of the Great Darkness of the First Age, and so the Sun was their enemy...
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So it seems that everyone's guesses were very educated guesses. [img]smilies/cool.gif[/img]
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Blessed be the Lord my Strength, Who trained my hands for war and my fingers to fight. Psallm 144:1
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