That's actually alot better, your right Kuruharan. Of course trolls were not robots, but you have the right idea about them being set in motion, and that was enough to keep them "truckin'".
Trolls weren't the most intelligent beings in Arda and they had little or no free will of their own. A troll could not simply say "hey, this whole killing thing just isn't for me, I think I'll be a gardner." They were given a purpose, and they continued this purpose even after Morgoth was gone. This indicates no soul, no free will.
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...but would this be enough for the kind of behaviour exhibited in The Hobbit?
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Well, we all know that the hobbit has many irregularities when it comes to Tolkien's universe as a whole. It was in the beginning, a bedtime story for his children, so talking trolls would be understandably entertaining, but they are "out of place". Perhaps if Tolkien were still around, he might not have had the trolls talk in the Hobbit, especially not with a cokney accent. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]
[ July 05, 2002: Message edited by: Orofacion of the Vanyar ]