Tuesday, 28 June 2016

Trolls

Poul Anderson, The Broken Sword (New York, 1973), p. 62.

Nearly as tall and nearly twice as wide as a man;

arms like branches of trees hanging to the knees;

short bowed legs;

clawed splay feet;

green, cold, slippery skin moving across stone-hard flesh;

most of them bald;

large round skull-like heads;

flat noses;

large mouths;

fangs;

pointed ears;

whiteless black eyes set deep in bony sockets.

Trolls in fantasy. Martians and Merseians in sf.

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