Who knows their trolls?

[The Barrow-Wight]

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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/redeye.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Who knows their trolls?

I agree, the language seems chosen carefully. But somehow you are separating two events that are obviously (and carefully) connected...two sentences... 1)Hurin is dragged away; followed by 2)the battle ending and sun setting. ( the 3rd sentence says 'Night fell in Hithlum'). If you really want to read it literally, Gothmog had time to drag Hurin all the way to Angband before the sun went down. But adding an entire sunrise and day between the capture of Hurin and the end of the battle is just not implied or suggested by the text. Forcing the Olog-hai references into this instance just doesn't fit. Square pegs, round holes.

Perhaps the Olog-hai were the only sun-proof trolls of their day? And those of the first age were destroyed with their master? Just a though that would jive with both theories.



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