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11-01-2002, 04:34 PM

I don't think that Hurin actually killed seventy trolls.
" And last of all Hurin sttod alone. Then he cast aside his shield and wielded an ax two handed;and it is sung that the ax smoked in the black blood of the troll gueard of Gothmog until it withered and each time that he slew Hurin cried 'Aure entuluva, Day shall come again.' Seventy times he uttered that cry; but they took him at last alive, by the command of Morgoth."

The passage goes on to say that the Orcs wrestled him to the ground and that he was cutting the arms off of the Orcs as they clutched for him. I think that Hurin a combination of trolls and orcs that numbered 70, but not seventy trolls only.

11-01-2002, 04:34 PM	#17
Timloth Guest Posts: n/a	I don't think that Hurin actually killed seventy trolls. " And last of all Hurin sttod alone. Then he cast aside his shield and wielded an ax two handed;and it is sung that the ax smoked in the black blood of the troll gueard of Gothmog until it withered and each time that he slew Hurin cried 'Aure entuluva, Day shall come again.' Seventy times he uttered that cry; but they took him at last alive, by the command of Morgoth." The passage goes on to say that the Orcs wrestled him to the ground and that he was cutting the arms off of the Orcs as they clutched for him. I think that Hurin a combination of trolls and orcs that numbered 70, but not seventy trolls only.