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* In Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear's ''A Companion To Wolves'' trolls fit into the "big ogrish" type physiclly. they can also move through rock and earth as easily an humans do through water and have a hivelike setup with a queen as the only fertile female, sterile female worker/soldiers and males whose only function is to impregnate the queen.
* The Trolls of [[Tales of Kolmar]] are all long dead, and as such never get described. But as the Trelli they were one of the four sentient species - the others being [[Our Dragons Are Different|Kantri]], [[Our Demons Are Different|Raksha]], and [[Humans by Any Other Name|Gedri]] - who were asked to choose between order and chaos. It's mentioned that Trelli had "only the merest beginnings of speech" but still conveyed their wish to not be governed by these Powers, which was "the seed of their ending". Only their name survives - there is a place on that world called the Trollingwood.
* Ansen Dibell's ''Summerfair'' is set on a [[Lost Colony|colony planet]] that settled into a semi-medieval pattern, with revived belief in magic. One character defines "troll" as basically one of [[The Fair Folk]] -- but though she doesn't know it, what she's identifying as a troll is really the [[Wetware CPU|cyborg]] [[Sapient Ship|starship]] that brought the colonists thousands of years ago ... and the ordinary-looking young man who tells her he's "the troll's brother" is one of its [[Wetware Body|biotechnological]] "mobiles." She's a bit irked when, after being killed defending her, he comes back as an '''[[Wizard Classic|old]]''' man. {{spoiler|But then, at the end, he returns in another young form, [[Happily Ever After|just for her]]....}}
{{quote|Trolls weren't that much different from anybody else, Sua thought: they just wanted to be sure they were welcomed and loved.}}
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