Mikko Rintasaari <rintasaa_at_mail.student.oulu.fi>
>I think Trolls fear iron with an irrational dread. Iron hungers for their
>life (they are animists, and to them iron propably seems alive and
>malicious). Iron weapons penetrating into their flesh burn them with a
>cold fire (feels like fire, but doesn't actually heat the flesh)
This is an interesting point, but...
Why is the use of iron any worse than the use of acid, or poison?
Or even worse, FIRE? Fire is hated for mythological reasons, and
yet ZZ will use it. Why not iron?