History Quotes / AllTrollsAreDifferent

-->-- ''{{WesternAnimation/Frozen|2013}}: [[Website/TheEditingRoom the Abridged Script]]''

->"Physically, they could be anywhere from two to fifteen feet tall, with almost any number and arrangement of heads and arms. One and two-headed trolls were the most common, but there were reports of up to a dozen. Some were gangly and spindle-limbed, and others had legs like tree trunks. The saying was that the gods made trolls out of leftovers."
-->-- ''Literature/TalesOfMU''

->'''[[Myth/NorseMythology Thor:]]''' I think trolls should be hardworking blacksmiths, [[BeneathTheEarth toiling away underground]], [[UltimateBlacksmith forging magical weapons]].\\
'''[[Myth/ClassicalMythology Hades:]]''' No! Trolls should be [[AlwaysChaoticEvil vile monsters]], [[TrollBridge living under bridges]] and [[Literature/ThreeBillyGoatsGruff harassing goats!]]\\
'''[[EasternZodiac Pig:]]''' You're both wrong! Trolls should be tiny wrinkled men with big poofy hair that are [[GottaCatchEmAll collected by old women!]]
-->-- ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0273.html #273]]

->Trolls sure are weird!
-->-- ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''

->So, when everything was ready, down came the Trolls. Some were great, and some were small; some had long tails, and some had no tails at all; some, too, had long, long noses; and they ate and drank, and tasted everything.
-->--'''"Literature/TheCatOnTheDovrefell"'''

->''They call me a troll,\\
moon of the dwelling-Rungnir,\\
giant's wealth-sucker,\\
storm-sun's grief,\\
seeress's companion,\\
fjord-corpse's guardian,\\
heaven-wheel's swallower.\\
What is a troll, but that?''
-->--'''A troll-woman''', ''Literature/SnorraEdda''

->'''Norway:''' Step right up, tourists! Marvel at the horrible beast! Poke him with sticks if you like! Tease him with fire! Have fun!\\
'''Denmark:''' If you touch my tiny designer troll you better have a good lawyer.
-->--''Webcomic/ScandinaviaAndTheWorld''

->The trolls of Midgard may be fading from your memory, as indeed they are from all the race of man. Few and forlorn, they crouch in damp caves and gnaw on the bones of the weak and foolhardy. The will of Odin has pushed them back into the dark places.\\
But in Valheim they have flourished. It has been centuries since any in Midgard saw the great trolls stamp flat the land and bring down the trees for joy. Look upon this great and noble sight, wanderers in a strange land! Then take to your heels and run...
-->--Troll runestone, ''VideoGame/{{Valheim}}''

->''What a happiness this must have been seventy or eighty years ago and upwards, to those chosen few who had the good luck to be born on the eve of this festival of all festivals; when the whole earth was so overrun with ghosts, boggles, bloody-bones, spirits, demons, ignis fatui, brownies, bugbears, black dogs, specters, shellycoats, scarecrows, witches, wizards, barguests, Robin-Goodfellows, hags, night-bats, scrags, breaknecks, fantasms, hobgoblins, hobhoulards, boggy-boes, dobbies, hob-thrusts, fetches, kelpies, warlocks, mock-beggars, mum-pokers, Jemmy-burties, urchins, satyrs, pans, fauns, sirens, tritons, centaurs, calcars, nymphs, imps, incubuses, spoorns, men-in-the-oak, hell-wains, fire-drakes, kit-a-can-sticks, Tom-tumblers, melch-dicks, larrs, kitty-witches, hobby-lanthorns, Dick-a-Tuesdays, Elf-fires, Gyl-burnt-tales, knockers, elves, rawheads, Meg-with-the-wads, old-shocks, ouphs, pad-foots, pixies, pictrees, giants, dwarfs, Tom-pokers, tutgots, snapdragons, sprets, spunks, conjurers, thurses, spurns, tantarrabobs, swaithes, tints, tod-lowries, Jack-in-the-Wads, mormos, changelings, redcaps, yeth-hounds, colt-pixies, Tom-thumbs, black-bugs, boggarts, scar-bugs, shag-foals, hodge-pochers, hob-thrushes, bugs, bull-beggars, bygorns, bolls, caddies, bomen, brags, wraiths, waffs, flay-boggarts, fiends, gallytrots, imps, gytrashes, patches, hob-and-lanthorns, gringes, boguests, bonelesses, Peg-powlers, pucks, fays, kidnappers, gallybeggars, hudskins, nickers, madcaps, trolls, robinets, friars' lanthorns, silkies, cauld-lads, death-hearses, goblins, hob-headlesses, bugaboos, kows, or cowes, nickies, nacks necks, waiths, miffies, buckies, ghouls, sylphs, guests, swarths, freiths, freits, gy-carlins Gyre-carling, pigmies, chittifaces, nixies, Jinny-burnt-tails, dudmen, hell-hounds, dopple-gangers, boggleboes, bogies, redmen, portunes, grants, [[OlderThanTheyThink hobbits,]] hobgoblins, brown-men, cowies, dunnies, wirrikows, alholdes, mannikins, follets, korreds, lubberkins, cluricauns, kobolds, leprechauns, kors, mares, korreds, puckles korigans, sylvans, succubuses, blackmen, shadows, banshees, lian-hanshees, clabbernappers, Gabriel-hounds, mawkins, doubles, corpse lights or candles, scrats, mahounds, trows, gnomes, sprites, fates, fiends, sibyls, nicknevins, whitewomen, fairies, thrummy-caps, cutties, and nisses, and apparitions of every shape, make, form, fashion, kind and description, that there was not a village in England that had not its own peculiar ghost. Nay, every lone tenement, castle, or mansion-house, which could boast of any antiquity had its bogle, its specter, or its knocker. The churches, churchyards, and crossroads were all haunted. Every green lane had its boulder-stone on which an apparition kept watch at night. Every common had its circle of fairies belonging to it. And there was scarcely a shepherd to be met with who had not seen a spirit!''
-->--'''Michael Aislabie Denham''', 1895, perhaps explaining why the need came about for a single word that could encompass several vastly different creatures.

->'''Thomas''': In fairy tales, trolls wear clothes and talk like people - they're just like people.\\

-->--Troll runestone, ''{{VideoGame/Valheim}}''

->"''Physically, they could be anywhere from two to fifteen feet tall, with almost any number and arrangement of heads and arms. One and two-headed trolls were the most common, but there were reports of up to a dozen. Some were gangly and spindle-limbed, and others had legs like tree trunks. The saying was that the gods made trolls out of leftovers.''"

->''Trolls sure are weird!''

-->--Michael Aislabie Denham, 1895, perhaps explaining why the need came about for a single word that could encompass several vastly different creatures.

->''So, when everything was ready, down came the Trolls. Some were great, and some were small; some had long tails, and some had no tails at all; some, too, had long, long noses; and they ate and drank, and tasted everything.''

-->-- ''Disney/{{Frozen}}: [[Website/TheEditingRoom the Abridged Script]]''

->''Trolls exist! They steal your socks! But only the left ones. What's with that?.''

-->--'''Gobber the Belch''', ''Film/HowToTrainYourDragon''

'''Anna:''' Before I decide how I feel about that, I have to ask - what kind of trolls are you?\\
'''Grand Pabbie:''' Well, since we’re reclusive, mystical and made out of rock, I want to say "Literature/{{Discworld}}", but because we’re also sickeningly sweet with an emphasis on family and friendship, I’ll have to go with "Big-Haired Doll".

'''Grand Pabbie:''' Well, since we’re reclusive, mystical and made out of rock, I want to say "{{Discworld}}", but because we’re also sickeningly sweet with an emphasis on family and friendship, I’ll have to go with "Big-Haired Doll".

'''[[ClassicalMythology Hades:]]''' No! Trolls should be [[AlwaysChaoticEvil vile monsters]], [[TrollBridge living under bridges]] and [[Literature/ThreeBillyGoatsGruff harassing goats!]]\\

->'''[[NorseMythology Thor:]]''' I think trolls should be hardworking blacksmiths, [[BeneathTheEarth toiling away underground]], [[UltimateBlacksmith forging magical weapons]].\\

->''So, when everything was ready, down came the Trolls. Some were great, and some were small; some had long tails, and some had no tails at all; some, too, had long, long noses; and they ate and drank, and tasted everything''
-->'''Literature/TheCatOnTheDovrefell'''

->''What a happiness this must have been seventy or eighty years ago and upwards, to those chosen few who had the good luck to be born on the eve of this festival of all festivals; when the whole earth was so overrun with ghosts, boggles, bloody-bones, spirits, demons, ignis fatui, brownies, bugbears, black dogs, specters, shellycoats, scarecrows, witches, wizards, barguests, Robin-Goodfellows, hags, night-bats, scrags, breaknecks, fantasms, hobgoblins, hobhoulards, boggy-boes, dobbies, hob-thrusts, fetches, kelpies, warlocks, mock-beggars, mum-pokers, Jemmy-burties, urchins, satyrs, pans, fauns, sirens, tritons, centaurs, calcars, nymphs, imps, incubuses, spoorns, men-in-the-oak, hell-wains, fire-drakes, kit-a-can-sticks, Tom-tumblers, melch-dicks, larrs, kitty-witches, hobby-lanthorns, Dick-a-Tuesdays, Elf-fires, Gyl-burnt-tales, knockers, elves, rawheads, Meg-with-the-wads, old-shocks, ouphs, pad-foots, pixies, pictrees, giants, dwarfs, Tom-pokers, tutgots, snapdragons, sprets, spunks, conjurers, thurses, spurns, tantarrabobs, swaithes, tints, tod-lowries, Jack-in-the-Wads, mormos, changelings, redcaps, yeth-hounds, colt-pixies, Tom-thumbs, black-bugs, boggarts, scar-bugs, shag-foals, hodge-pochers, hob-thrushes, bugs, bull-beggars, bygorns, bolls, caddies, bomen, brags, wraiths, waffs, flay-boggarts, fiends, gallytrots, imps, gytrashes, patches, hob-and-lanthorns, gringes, boguests, bonelesses, Peg-powlers, pucks, fays, kidnappers, gallybeggars, hudskins, nickers, madcaps, trolls, robinets, friars' lanthorns, silkies, cauld-lads, death-hearses, goblins, hob-headlesses, bugaboos, kows, or cowes, nickies, nacks necks, waiths, miffies, buckies, ghouls, sylphs, guests, swarths, freiths, freits, gy-carlins Gyre-carling, pigmies, chittifaces, nixies, Jinny-burnt-tails, dudmen, hell-hounds, dopple-gangers, boggleboes, bogies, redmen, portunes, grants, hobbits, hobgoblins, brown-men, cowies, dunnies, wirrikows, alholdes, mannikins, follets, korreds, lubberkins, cluricauns, kobolds, leprechauns, kors, mares, korreds, puckles korigans, sylvans, succubuses, blackmen, shadows, banshees, lian-hanshees, clabbernappers, Gabriel-hounds, mawkins, doubles, corpse lights or candles, scrats, mahounds, trows, gnomes, sprites, fates, fiends, sibyls, nicknevins, whitewomen, fairies, thrummy-caps, cutties, and nisses, and apparitions of every shape, make, form, fashion, kind and description, that there was not a village in England that had not its own peculiar ghost. Nay, every lone tenement, castle, or mansion-house, which could boast of any antiquity had its bogle, its specter, or its knocker. The churches, churchyards, and crossroads were all haunted. Every green lane had its boulder-stone on which an apparition kept watch at night. Every common had its circle of fairies belonging to it. And there was scarcely a shepherd to be met with who had not seen a spirit!''

-->-- ''TalesOfMU''

'''[[ClassicalMythology Hades:]]''' No! Trolls should be [[AlwaysChaoticEvil vile monsters]], [[TrollBridge living under bridges]] and [[ThreeBillyGoatsGruff harassing goats!]]\\

-->-- ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck

->"''Physically, they could be anywhere from two to fifteen feet tall, with almost any number and arrangement of heads and arms. One and two-headed trolls were the most common, but there were reports of up to a dozen. Some were gangly and spindle-limbed, and others had legs like tree trunks. The saying was that the gods made trolls out of leftovers.''"\\
-- ''TalesOfMU''

'''[[EasternZodiac Pig:]]''' You're both wrong! Trolls should be tiny wrinkled men with big poofy hair that are [[GottaCatchEmAll collected by old women!]]\\
-- ''Webcomic/OrderOfTheStick'', [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0273.html #273]]

->''Trolls sure are weird!''\\
-- ''{{Homestuck}}''

-- ''OrderOfTheStick'', [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0273.html #273]]

-- ''TalesOfMU''