This unnamed Troll is a minor character in the Season 3 episode "Chapter 5: The Job" and it's tie-in novel adaptation Hilda and the Faratok Tree.
Appearance[]
This troll appears mostly alike all other trolls in the animated series. His body looks like a large boulder with stumpy arms and legs, white blank eyes, and a long nose. He is however, sightly taller than most other trolls.
Personality[]
The troll can get extremely aggressive if anyone tries to steal from him, but is calm towards Hilda because she can talk to him.
Biography[]
The troll likes to collects boxes and chests for his hoard, which he hides in the ruins of Fort Ahlberg. One of these chests is filled with gold. The Polecat found out about this chest (in the series he bribed a Vittra for this information) and tried to steal it, but the troll caught him in the act and chased him away. The Polecat narrowly escaped the troll when it threw a large rock at this truck, denting it.
The troll petrified.
To get the Troll's treasure, the Polecat sends Gunther and Garth to retrieve the chest, and hires Anders to bring the chest to Trolberg. Hilda comes along for the ride. Along the way, their truck gets a flat tire and while Anders replaces it, Twig finds the petrified troll with a bell attached to it's nose. Twig removes the bell and Hilda decides to get rid of it because she knows how much bells hurt trolls.
After the sun sets, the troll wakes up and heads back for the ruins to protect his hoard. He finds Anders, Hilda, Gunther, and Garth, who where pulling the chest out of the hole with a pulley but got into an argument when Hilda realized they were stealing a troll's hoard.
Here the events between the animated series and tie-in book differ. In the series, the chest has already been hauled out of the hole and Johanna also shows up in the ruins around the same time as the troll. While Garth and Gunther flee from the ruins with no loot, Anders distracts the troll to save his family. Enraged, the troll chases him down into the dungeons, where he corners Anders, but before he can smash him, Anders mysteriously vanishes (because, as revealed later, he was pulled into Fairy Country by Phinium and Lydia). Hilda thinks the troll ate her father, but the troll lets her look into his mouth to prove he did not. Hilda and Johanna then leave, and the troll lets them go unhindered.
In the book, Johanna does not show up until later, and the humans are still busy hauling the chest out of the hole when the troll interferes and grabs the chest. He ends up falling into he hole with the chest and Anders, while simultaneously Garth and Gunther are pulled up on the other side of the rafter and end up on the rafter with Hilda. As they flee the scene, Hilda descends into the hole to find her father, but he is already gone. Like in the series, the troll proves to Hilda he did not eat Anders.
Trivia[]
- Although this troll did not appear, but was mentioned by Anders in "Chapter 8: The Fairy Isle", when explaining to Hilda about how he got into Fairy Country.
- It is unknown who placed the bell on the troll while he was turned to stone. It is possible that it might have been the Polecat as payback for throwing a rock at his truck.