Based on the popular Trolls dolls created by Thomas Dam, Trolls is a 3D computer-animated musical comedy from DreamWorks Animation directed by Mike Mitchell ( Shrek Forever After) Christian writer Snorri Sturluson, may have rewritten Loki in the process of creating his work, the prose Edda- a foundational text for our understandings of Norse mythology. Hyde writes, “there are really two eras of Norse mythology, and two Lokis, the Christian lens having turned Snorri’s Loki darker and more demonic than the Loki who inhabits the earlier poems” (104). In this instance, the fate of Loki parallels the fate of the Sophists. He is targeted by a writer whose ideology recasts him in a negative light. Although Urban Dictionary and Wikipedia may arguably be less scholarly sources than the Oxford Living Dictionary, granted that trolling as a word used in this way is a more recent phenomenon, we must turn to sources like Urban Dictionary and Wikipedia until the more “academy appropriate” tracts produces more thorough understandings of “the art” of trolling. Each definition provided above highlights a different aspect of a similar phenomena, although these definitions all place that phenomena within a digital space. For our purposes here, as implied within the abbreviated history of rhetoric, trolling is not limited to digital spaces. The Origins of Rhetoric The rhetorical situation of writing this article.

The Art of Eric Guillon: From the Making of Despicable Me to Minions, The Secret Life of Pets, and More The film takes you through many famous parts of Norway, and you can follow in the footsteps of this famous troll! Please note my history here is largely concerned with a Western tradition as that is where my expertise lies, but I find it pertinent to stress that there are other traditions of rhetoric, other rhetorics, beyond what I write here. For those interested in further pursuing a larger investigation into the History of Rhetoric, Patricia Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg have a mammoth tome called The Rhetorical Tradition: From Classical Times to Present. To “make a deliberately offensive or provocative online post with the aim of upsetting someone or eliciting an angry response from them” ( Oxford Living Dictionary). Croll, Ben (May 31, 2022). The Art of Eric Guillon: From the Making of Despicable Me to Minions, The Secret Life of Pets, and More. ISBN 978-1683836810.Trolling.” Oxford Living Dictionary. https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/troll. Accessed 24 January 2017. Trolls features two main characters; Poppy of Troll Village, and Branch, the village’s pessimist. The trolls have escaped from Bergentown, where they were a culinary delight, twenty years ago, and have lived happily in their own hidden village ever since under popular King Peppy. His hyperenthusiastic teen daughter, Princess Poppy, does all that she can to keep all the trolls constantly joyous. Only Branch, the village’s pessimist, worries about the giant Bergens finding them. When Chef, the Bergentown king’s cook, does and captures Poppy’s friends, she and Branch are thrown together into an odd-couple rescue mission. What they find in Bergentown, described in this book, leads to the expected happy ending but not the one that the audience was anticipating.

The art of deliberately, cleverly, and secretly pissing people off, usually via the internet, using dialogue… The most essential part of trolling is convincing your victim that either a) truly believe in what you are saying, no matter how outrageous, or b) give your victim malicious instructions, under the guise of help.” ( Urban Dictionary).Yet we should not just think of trolls as figments in imaginary worlds. When King Magnus Haakonsson modernised the laws of Norway in 1276 he made it illegal to attempt to wake “mound-dwellers,” identified in the laws by the first recorded use of the word “troll.” When we think of the great burial mounds, barrows, of the Norse world we can see the link between massive earthy creatures and the ethereal haunting of ghosts. In Snorri Sturluson’s 13 th century Skáldskaparmál he describes a meeting with a troll woman who describes herself in the following way: In the Saga of Ketil Trout trolls are a recurring theme. We are told how Ketil the hero is born to a father who is half-troll. Ketil then meets up with Hrafnhild the troll and fathers a child on her. This child is Grim Shaggy-Cheek, named for the hideous hair on his face. Humans are therefore not all that different from trolls. Yet in the saga Ketil is told “It is evil that you should love that troll.” Bizzell, Patricia and Bruce Herzberg. The Rhetorical Tradition: Readings From Classical Traditions to Present. 2nd ed. Bedford/St.Martin’s, 2001.