Your personal views on the portrayal of trolls(the fantasy creatures) in fantasy novels

[OP1000]

Do you have a preference for the way they should be portrayed in fantasy novels?

 

[RepresentingWrath]

No.

 

[Deleted member 84247]

As long as they aren't the small singing and dancing kind.

 

[Deleted member 58005]

I always think of them as big, sometimes one-eyed monsters three times the size of a normal human

 

[Domoviye]

I'll take them in many different ways.
Weird Scandinavian folklore people. Cool.
Fairytale like weirdness. Works.
Hulking, stupid monsters. I like.
Big brutish humanoids. I can go with it.

Just as long as they're not tiny annoying singers that should all be squashed.

 

[LilRora]

https://witcher.fandom.com/wiki/Troll
There is that, this is the one I'm most used to, but there are many other.

The one I think I like the most is a very tall, thin humanoid, can be with one eye or with claws, with a bit lower intelligence than that of a human, something like that, but not as exaggerated.

 

[ThrillingHuman]

 

[BearlyAlive]

If the trolls aren't trolling, everything's daijobu

 

[gaylolis]

 

[Cipiteca396]

That song always makes me smile. And want to watch Lord of the Rings.

 

[minionlover]

Do you have a preference for the way they should be portrayed in fantasy novels?

I like when they're basically doggos who speak broken English. Always breaks my human heart when such an innocent breed are slaughtered for EXP.

 

[AryaX]

Umm... Nope... Trolls sort of feel like... They belong in the same category as Goblins, Orcs and Ogres ?

But I generally prefer the Hentai depictions... and those, it seems, are always Goblins, Orcs or Ogres...

I don't recall any Trolls in Hentai... Do they not like girls ?

 

[AuntieMaysLittleCousin]

Trolls, huh. I imagine them as two-humans-sized beasts with cream-filthy skin and a absurdly fat. Wearing a ripped loincloth and carrying around a piece of fallen tree trunk.
One eye, or two, doesn't really matter.
Goblins are green, tiny and with giant ears, orcs hulking humanoids with green skin and tusks but not deviating much from the human form, and ogres larger than a troll and with blue skin, and the head of a pig.

 

[Cipiteca396]

To me, there's three preferred types of trolls.

The classic (Tolkien) trolls are born of stone and earth, large and durable, with limited intelligence. They often have strange weaknesses like being turned to stone in the light.

DnD trolls are green and have superior regeneration, capable of recovering from wounds in moments. Most of them are giantkin like the classic trolls, but some are human sized. Warcraft Trolls, for example.

Age of Wonders trolls are large and intelligent in a cunning way- selfish and cruel. They're covered in fur and can build surprisingly powerful nations when left alone. Since they go out of their way to attack people though, they don't get left alone if other people are nearby. Elder Scrolls trolls fall into this category.

Mixing and matching is fine, but to be a troll it needs to have something or another from these types.

 

[Tempokai]

I like the DND style troll most. Either green or blue, savant brutes with claws, big regen, and small brain.

 

[Wolfbane]

I prefer it when authors make them unique and avoid just ripping of other works. I cringe a little whenever I read a novel that simply describes trolls as something from another work e.g. "the trolls looked like those from Skyrim." If you are writing an unique novel, then make it unique. Having similarities is fine and we all have a general idea of what a troll should be but that doesn't excuse uncreative writing.

 

[NotaNuffian]

How I view trolls is how I differentiate between them and goblins, hobgoblins, ogres orcs. Fyi they have the same facial features, green skin, pointy ears and nose, yellow eyes and (still remaining) teeth.

Goblins: size like six years old and irritating like one as well.
Hobgoblin: size like twelve to sixteen years old and crafty.
Ogre Orc: six foot tall bald fat bastards with pot belly and loincloth. Dumb, strong and maybe possessing healing factor of trolls (depending on authors)
Troll: six foot tall mophead lankyass with lankier limbs. Heals fast and well.

 

[bulmabriefs144]

To me, there's three preferred types of trolls.

The classic (Tolkien) trolls are born of stone and earth, large and durable, with limited intelligence. They often have strange weaknesses like being turned to stone in the light.

DnD trolls are green and have superior regeneration, capable of recovering from wounds in moments. Most of them are giantkin like the classic trolls, but some are human sized. Warcraft Trolls, for example.

Age of Wonders trolls are large and intelligent in a cunning way- selfish and cruel. They're covered in fur and can build surprisingly powerful nations when left alone. Since they go out of their way to attack people though, they don't get left alone if other people are nearby. Elder Scrolls trolls fall into this category.

Mixing and matching is fine, but to be a troll it needs to have something or another from these types.

You forgot these types of trolls.