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The Stone Troll
J. R. R. Tolkien · 1962poem
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Recited by Sam Gamgee in the Trollshaws, this comic poem has a wanderer confront a troll gnawing what he claims is his uncle's shinbone, only to hurt his own toe kicking the unmoved troll -- and wish he'd worn a bigger boot.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Placement
- contained in A Tolkien Miscellanyomnibus
- contained in Farmer Giles of Ham / The Adventures of Tom Bombadilomnibus
- contained in Poems and Storiesomnibus
- contained in Tales from the Perilous Realmomnibus
- contained in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Bookcollection
- contained in The Tolkien Readeromnibus
- contained in Tolkien Fantasy Tales Box Setomnibus