Re: TROLLS!!

Danny Wier wrote:
>From: "Andreas Johansson" <and_yo@...>
>
>| Danny Wier wrote:
>
>| >This is the language of the Trolls (species _homo erectus_ still
>| >surviving),
>|
>| To me, the word "troll" suggest something rather broader, bulkier and
>| generally ungainlier than an erectid. While that, primarily, is my
>problem,
>| don't you think the name is more confusing than enlightening? Or is this
>| deliberate?
>
>Yeah, I have to brush up on my knowledge of early man. I'm thinking of a
>burly,
>hairy, slouching, less intellectually advanced (and larger) variant of
>humanity.
>The term "troll" is applied to the race derogatively by humans.
>
>The most likely model would be like a "Bigfoot" or sasquatch-type of
>creature.
>They do live in frigid regions anyway, though not by choice.
The word "erectid" refers to group a closely related species or variants,
including Homo erectus and Homo Ergaster. They were rather tall and slender
(one book I've got claims an average male height of 180cm, which'd beat
modern humans). As implied by the name "erectid", they went fully upright.
As for hairiness, nobody knows. Their intellectual capacity would've been
found somewhere between modern man and modern chimpanzees.

What you describe sounds more like Homo neanderthalensis, which altho' not
very tall was broadly built and addapted to cold. Generally thought to've
been brighter than the erectids, but presumeably less so than modern humans.
>
>It might among the Elves, the evil ones that are plotting to take the world
>from
>the humans....
>
Nice folks ...



>| Mathematically inclined guyz - I get more and more interested in what
>kind
>| of society made up by erectids needs a number system much more complicate
>| than that used in many Homo sapiens societies!
>
>Why, it's a simple base-10 system. Should I use base-5 instead?
Well, many hunter-gatherer peoples have had languages with only a few
unsystematic basic nummerals and ordinals. From you descriptions I'd rather
expect a Troll to count "one, two, three, many, lots ..."

                                                 Andreas

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