JRR Tolkien - Essays on Middle Earth by JRR Tolkien

Author:JRR Tolkien
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Published: 2009-08-15T04:09:05+00:00

We know too little of the other "evil" creatures in Tolkien's world to dwell long on any of them. The Orcs are better documented than all the other evil things combined. Trolls are given a lot of credibility as powerful and deadly foes, yet the episode in THE HOBBIT with Bert, William, and Tom is very disarming. They come across as a bunch of buffoons. One must wonder why the green-scaled cave troll in Moria was willing to stick its foot through the door in the Chamber of Mazarbul so that Frodo could stab it. Was it in any way as "silly" as Bert or Tom? Probably not.

There were a few other trolls in THE LORD OF THE RINGS. Two brought up huge slabs of stone to bridge the fiery chasm for the Orcs in Moria. Pippin appears to have killed a "hill-troll" in the Battle of the Morannon. Trolls were used to break down the gates of Minas Tirith.

The Barrow-wights have intrigued many people. What were they? They were sent by the Witchking of Angmar to inhabit the barrows of Tyrn Gorthad, the western branch of the South Downs. These spirits apparently worshiped Sauron, who was a master of phantoms even in the First Age. Were they lesser Maiar, corrupted by Melkor, or perhaps other spirits who joined him in Ea?

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