Troll Bridge
| Terry Pratchett The Discworld series 1st short story – 3rd Individual story
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| Characters: | Cohen the Barbarian | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Locations: | Death Bridge |
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| Motifs: | Fantasy clichés | ||||||||||||||||||||
Troll Bridge is a Discworld short story, written by Terry Pratchett in 1991 for a collection entitled After The King: Stories in Honour of J.R.R. Tolkien.
Set following the events of The Light Fantastic,[1] the story stars Cohen the Barbarian, who plans to prove himself by killing a troll in single combat. Instead, he and the troll find themselves reminiscing about how the Discworld used to be, when trolls all hid under bridges to be killed by heroes, and the land was not so well settled. In other words, as encroaching civilization tames the landscape the environment required for "typical" fantasy adventures disappears, until characters such as Cohen become mythical.
A film of Troll Bridge is in production by Snowgum Films.[2]
[edit] Characters
Cohen is the only character who is definitely seen in other Discworld novels. However the Ankh-Morpork City Watch does have a troll constable by the name of Mica[3] and a troll called Bryn Chalifoux (Mica's brother-in-law), who owns a sawmill, is mentioned in Witches Abroad, although it is unclear whether these are the same individuals.
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| Preceded by Moving Pictures (novel) |
3rd Individual Story Published in 1992 |
Succeeded by Small Gods |
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