+ The folk belief … is that lightning seeks out trolls and giants, perhaps a reflection the giant-slaying of Thor in Old Norse mythology. Many informants have told collectors that the reason the giants or trolls are no longer populous is the accuracy and efficiency of the lightning strokes.
+ John Lindow, in Swedish Folktales and Legends (1978), p. 89
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+ Senator Stampingston: Gentlemen, it's clear that we're in a universally precarious situation. Dethklok has summoned a troll.
+ General Crozier: That's impossible, there's no such thing as trolls.
+ Senator Stampingston: Then how do you explain the dead unicorns?
+ Metalocalypse, Dethtroll, episode 1.04 (2006)
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+ They were trolls. Obviously trolls. Even Bilbo, in spite of his sheltered life, could see that: from the great heavy faces of them, and their size, and the shape of their legs, not to mention their language, which was not drawing-room fashion at all, at all.
+ J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit (1937), Chapter 2: "Roast Mutton"