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Finally, this copleted rendering after almost 40 hrs. (I did some plop renders etc... so that was total rendertime). I kinda "like" him myself. But I came to think of... how do the trolls of your mind look? :)

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I like it! My trolls look more like this, but only a lot bigger and more impressive looking...Kinda like the EverQuest trolls, but not so fat (if any of you played EverQuest at any point in time, you understand).

great render! well worth 40 hours. Trolls in my mind are kind of mixture between yours and slakkers.

I like it britt. Kind of looks like the Hulk didn't make the full transformation. MY image of a troll though, is like the one that was in the first Harry Potter movie. Big, hairy and ugly.

I like him, very nice work, the 40 hours were worth it.

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Slakker... eww. *lol* he looks really mean. I think that most Norwegians see trolls like the artist Theodore Kittelsen saw them. He illustrated the Norwegian fairy tales back in the late 1800's, and his trolls are still considered to be the "prototype". *l* Anyhow, he was a great artist, so if you'd like to see some of his work, I've provided the link. I inherited our family's Norwegian fairy tale books, (I would read them for hours as a kid visiting my grand parents :), and I still read them a lot and look at those wonderful drawings. :) I assume that Potter and games like Everquest might confuse the poor Norwegian kids minds though. *lol* they're also very good.

Good looking troll you've got there Britt. It reminds me of the trolls in a game I used to play called RingWorld Noir. The trolls in that were almost human although slightly dim. 8) Catlin

Nice troll. Could be one of the trolls from Hobbit. Or from Discworld. But I like the small ones more. :-)

I didn't know they had Trolls on Discworld.....

There's even one or two in the Ankh-Morpork city watch!

Detritus, for starters. :-) And then there's the mob run by a troll, forgot the name, but he's pretty noticeable in ... Soul Music. Though britt's troll looks like the ones in Light Fantastic.

Chrysophase, I believe, also noted in Wyrd Sisters.

I always thought the legend of bridge trolls started with ancient homeless people who would accost bridge crossers for their spare change.

Ooops! that's what I meant Discworld. 8)

GROINGRINDER - there is an old, old Norwegian fairy tale of the three Goats who walked towards the mountains for the summer, - but before they got there, they had to cross a bridge. But under the bridge, lived a big, bad troll.... :) It's kind of interesting too, - I've tried to find the origin of them. But they have to be older than dirt, - and probably part of the old norse underworld. Our old "nisse" (santa) stems from that, at least. The trolls were modernized in the 1800's. Henrik Ibsen lets the meanest troll of them all ("Dovregubben", - lives in the largest mountain area in Norway) meet Peer Gynt, and the old troll says that "in the old days the trolls had more than one head.. at least 3" Scary stuff! lol

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I always liked the trolls in D&D. :)