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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/redeye.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Who knows their trolls?
I've cruised through both "Letters" and Volume XII searching for troll references and wasn't able to turn up much of substance -- though I don't own either and so haven't been able to read them thoroughly. But doesn't the finalization of the Appendices sometime in 1955 post-date this rather obscure letter?
I wasn't able to find anything in Volume XII re: Trolls that differed significantly from what's published. What did jump out at me was that (a) Tolkien had worked on the material for years and done his usual numerous drafts, and (b) he seemed really stressed out about what to include and how to include it given the space restrictions imposed on him. All this leads me to ask: why would he just toss off a virtually meaningless Olog-hai reference given the amount of sweating that he did over the Appendices?
Now I'm starting to preview my article a bit...
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