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Troll Bridge

Pages
10
Published
1992
Language
English

Synopsis

Cohen the Barbarian — eighty-seven years old, the last of the great heroes, with aching joints and a lifetime of impossible quests behind him — encounters a troll on a bridge. The troll is supposed to eat him. Instead, they talk. A melancholy and quietly funny short story about what happens to heroes and monsters when the age of adventure is over, and what it means to be the last of something. Originally published in After the King: Stories in Honor of J.R.R. Tolkien (1992).