Cave Troll (The Lord of the Rings)

Cave Troll
Naming
Others	Troll
Morphology
Body type	Humanoid
Intelligence
Sapience	Sapient
Aggressivity	Very high
Language	English
Ecology
Place of origin	Middle Earth
Habitat	Caverns, Misty Mountains
Diet	Omnivore
Locomotion	Bipedal
Status	Data Deficient
Behind the Scenes
Universe	Middle Earth
Created by	J.R.R. Tolkein

Cave Trolls are a race of Trolls found within the caves of the Misty Mountains. One of them appears in the Fellowship of the Ring, as the Fellowship passed through Moria - at the battle at the Chamber of Mazarbul.

Overview

Cave-trolls are unintelligent creatures. They use their sense of smell more often than sight, generally being brought into combat by a chain around their neck, led along by a goblin tamer. In combat, Cave-trolls usually kill the figures that foolishly get too close to them, friend or foe, strategy notwithstanding. Cave-trolls, of all the types of trolls, are fairly tall in stature, being taller than the hill trolls of Mordor, but not as intelligent.

Diet

Cave-trolls are omnivores, eating both meat and plants.

Habits

Usually these trolls live with groups of goblins and fight alongside them or in groups of two or three in small caves. They are used by the armies of Sauron (though Sauron would typically forego these trolls in favor of Olog-hai, a stronger and smarter troll that could move in the sunlight without turning into stone). It is known that Cave-trolls turn into stone when exposed to direct sunlight.