Talk:Trolls

Since Trolls have diamond teeth, is there then a reason to think that diamonds are not considered the precious stone on the Disc? For instance, why didn't Brick have a couple of teeth removed to pay for his habbits? --Megahurts 08:24, 19 March 2010 (UTC) link title

Sea Trolls

What about the Sea Trolls? I only have seen them mentioned in the TCOM.

Fhh98 00:30, 22 September 2006 (CEST)

Tethis is presumably unique -- he fell off another world and thawed out near Discworld. I doubt there's another sea troll anywhere on the Disc (unless the inhabitants of Bathys have a habit of falling off their homeworld and getting caught in the Disc's orbit). Of course, that raises the question: if there's only one of him, why bother with a species designation! Kellyterryjones 21:25, 27 January 2008 (CET)

If he doesn't get a species, what is he. He needs a species because he doesn't have one. --Confusion (talk) 05:09, 19 December 2013 (GMT)

Make this a category?

Should this be a category so that we can automatically get a list of known trolls by editing their pages? Kellyterryjones 23:49, 26 January 2008 (CET)

You mean a Troll category containing the Troll article and Category:Troll characters? We don't do that for anybody else, do we? --Old Dickens 01:38, 27 January 2008 (CET)...actually, we do for Wizards and Witches but not Dwarves or Humans. Consistency is nice, but I wonder what problems will turn up as a result? The Trolls article, e.g., could be pasted to the top of Category:Troll characters and then turned into a redirect. Would changing the category to match "Witches" require fixing all the individual links, or can a category be redirected? --Old Dickens 16:55, 27 January 2008 (CET)

OK, it can. So how is this any better at finding Trolls than the current Category:Troll characters? --Old Dickens 16:55, 27 January 2008 (CET)

Didn't know that category existed. I've added a link to it from this page so people can find it easier. That's good enough for me! Kellyterryjones 21:23, 27 January 2008 (CET)

Matt Smith vs. Mr. Kidby

Some of the text underneath the image of the troll heads: "Troll heads, as drawn by Matt Smith, with a deep nod to the far more talented Mr Kidby" I cannot imagine a more biased sentence. Can I have a second opinion on this? (unsigned comment by Xylozex, 13 April 2011)

Sure. You're a troll and Knmatt can be biased toward Paul Kidby if he likes. --Old Dickens 03:52, 14 April 2011 (CEST)

Troll computation

I was about to add a section on how trolls count, but it might need input from a mathematician.
Does One, two, many, LOTS! count as Base Three or as Base Four? AgProv (talk) 20:12, 1 December 2014 (UTC)

And a decade later... It's Base Four. The next number in the sequence would be lots-and-one, lots-and-two, etc. Moishe Rosenbaum (talk) 03:05, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Also an arithmetic teacher! What a mensch! --Old Dickens (talk) 04:25, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Diet

There's some confusion here around the Troll diet. Conflict with Humans has been mentioned, including playing a form of foot-the-ball with Human heads (Aargrooha) but it is also stated that Trolls are made of minerals (rocks) and therefore eat minerals and drink or otherwise ingest various violently inorganic compounds (several menu items, beverages and drugs have been mentioned). They don't eat people or other organic foodstuffs. --Old Dickens (talk) 03:07, 2 June 2018 (UTC)