Now when Peter Jackson got out his latest video log, regarding the Hobbit, I just can't see the big reference from elder scrolls - of course it comes from the books, but that troll is so similar to those in oblivion!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqzJ1LFh6x0 go around the 2 minute mark, you will see a troll hand.

I already got chills:D

I don't think this has anything to do with Skyrim no..

I didn't see any thing troll-ish around the 2 minute mark. Besides, trolls in the Hobbit were big dumb human-esque giants, more like the cyclopes from The Oddessy.

An Oblivion troll is a huge beast-like creature that attacks with its claws, a Tolkien troll is like a gigantic orc (but even dumber). In The Hobbit the trolls talk, cook mutton, and bag up pesky dwarves.

They could not possibly be more different.

It wasn't on the 2 minute mark, I don't have the video at the moment but somewhere where they say like "make it look not so humanish" It's like a troll makeuping some greeny stuff..

It actually sounds kinda funny when you think of them as forum trolls. :tongue:

the 2 minute mark was the costume department (aka: outfits made of fabric/leather), the only thing at the 2 minute mark that could come close to what your talking about was just a bolt of green fabric

You realize The Elder Scrolls (especially Oblivion) is heavily influenced by LOTR right? :huh: and not the other way around. Tolkien was around long before games my friend.

Pretty much all fantasy is influenced by LOTR.

Ditto

Exactly what I was going to post until I scrolled down.

But yea, I don't think that the Hobbit does/will have any references to TES.

Actually, those trolls are more similar to Oblivion's ogres.