Nice cave trolls?

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by A Little Green

I might want to say that the entire affair is about the Hobbit being a children's book and written before LotR. Though this viewpoint has been up in the discussion, I'd like to emphasise it a little. If we start making up 'reasonable' explanations, we'll just have a headache, because if there are any by Tolkien they most probably are belately invented.

And that is why I am looking at it not from the point of the Letters (because I am also an ignorant little brat who hasn't read the Letters, mainly because he could not rather than he would not like to), nor from the point of an outside observer (because I don't want to), but from the point of looking at a self-consistent world, which is put in front of us, and where really, one late spring night, one troll showed compassion