WIP: HotT Orcs & Goblins 4

Finally, my HotT Orcs have a behemoth element. The element has 2 figures drafted from the Dungeons and Dragon miniatures line. The 30mmish prepainted Orc Savage from the Deathknell release looked suitable enough to be a 1/72 troll. These are more samples of my repurposed and rebased figures with the original prepainted minis repainted a trollish green and based for HotT as a behemoth element.

In Norse mythology, trolls are said to dwell in isolated mountains, rocks, and caves, are larger than humans and notably ugly. Numerous tales about trolls are recorded, in which they are frequently described as being extremely old, very strong, but slow and dim-witted. They are sometimes described as man-eaters and as turning to stone upon contact with sunlight. In Tolkien's writings they are portrayed as evil, stupid, with crude habits, although still intelligent enough to communicate with a known language.

Morgoth, created the first Trolls before the First Age. Strong and vicious, but stupid creatures, their major weakness was that they turned to stone in sunlight.  Treebeard of the Ents states that Trolls were "made in mockery of" them, as Orcs were of Elves, though not necessarily from Ents. Trolls were likely a corrupted form of some other race of Middle-earth, as both Morgoth and Sauron could only corrupt creatures which already existed, not create any anew. There is reference that sunlight will return them to the stone from which they were made in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. In the Second Age and Third Age, Trolls were among Sauron's most dangerous warriors.