Trolls and Iron

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 14:48:34 +1300

Steve Barnes:

>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?

Zorak Zoran uses fire because he has conquered it. No troll has conquered iron save perhaps the Only Old One who managed not to be burned by it (even then this is cited as proof of his not being a troll).

• --Peter Metcalfe

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