Talk:Troll/@comment-2606:6000:6203:F400:A0FE:4DEF:22F8:4508-20171225033801/@comment-29248623-20171225045433

I don't have distinct knowledge on other fantasies regarding trolls and I can't really speak for the standpoint of the developers of Yggdrasil but I believe this is just a quirk made in the story.

My reasoning for this is that in few mythologies are there any distinct descripitions of Troll culture outside of them being brutish, greedy and violent man-eaters. There as some fantasy sites that I've browsed through that spoke of Trolls having a demeanor focused on having a strong image and the logic for the short names is that shorter names are easier to pronounce and shout out. This may or may not be from a difficulty of Trolls with pronouncing long names due to a lower intellectual capacity or speech impediments. Other aspects such as culture do come into play.

As for the NW trolls, they are clearly a tribal culture and may not have developed a sophisticated tradition for names and stuck to simpler to pronounce names that can be said in a grunt. The few named trolls in the LN do have easy to say names and only Go Gin was emphasized to be more intelligent and behaved better than the typical troll.