Tom, Bert, and William



"What are yer?"

- The Hobbit: Roast Mutton

"Bilbo Baggins, a bur-a hobbit."

- The Hobbit: Roast Mutton

"A burrahobbit? What's a burrahobbit got to do with my pocket, anyways?"

- The Hobbit: Roast Mutton

Tom, Bert, and William Huggins were three bickering Trolls that Bilbo Baggins encountered on his quest to regain the Lonely Mountain (Erebor). When Bilbo tried to pick William's pocket to test his skill as a burglar, William's purse squealed, alerting him. The trio of Trolls captured Bilbo, who, almost revealing himself as a burglar, identified himself as a "bur- a hobbit", which they mistook for a "burrahobbit". Eventually all of the dwarves in Thorin's company came looking for Bilbo, and they were waylaid by the trolls and put into sacks. After they accomplished this, they discussed ways to kill them and eat them. Gandalf came then, and caused his voice to sound like the Trolls', starting a fight amongst them. He kept them arguing about how to cook the dwarves until dawn came, and the sun turned them into stone. There is some confusion as to what breed of Troll they are, Stone Trolls- this confusion being easily illustrated by the fact that several different pages of this wiki detailing breeds of Troll list these three as members of that particular breed.

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy


"Well! We are forgetting our family history! These must be the very three that were caught by Gandalf, quarrelling over the right way to cook thirteen dwarves and one hobbit."

- The Lord of the Rings

"I had no idea we were anywhere near the place!"

- The Lord of the Rings

On their trek to Rivendell in the Fellowship of the Ring, Aragorn and the four hobbits Frodo Baggins, Samwise Gamgee, Meriadoc Brandybuck, and Peregrin Took encountered the stone statues of the Trolls, and momentarily thought them to be real. While the scene itself is not included in the movie version, the stone Trolls are visible in the background of another scene. Also in the movie, Bilbo recounts the story to several hobbit-children at his 111th birthday party and Frodo's 33rd.