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I am Norwegian. I really liked The Troll Hunter, among other things because it is rather different, it is like Blair Witch Projects meets Norse Mythology. It is nice to see a movie with trolls, as in the trolls that where part of Norwegian mythology, not little gremlins or Lord of the Rings trolls. Norway have a rich folklore and while this movie do twist and turn that folklore around quite a bit to try to form some sort of natural explanation for the trolls and so on it is still nice to see actual trolls used in film. I am also impressed by the special effects, for a small Norwegian movie production company that is really impressive. The acting is a bit lacking at times but the dialog are very fun.

Another reason why this movie resonates with me is that I live in Bergen, that is not that far from Hardanger, my hubby have family there, now for some time now our politicians want to put up high power cables in Hardanger, most of us from this part of the country however do not want that, those cables really messed up the nature at Dovre and we do not want it here, it is fun that the movie addresses this.

One more point before I end this post. You have probably heard the melody In The Hall Of The Mountain King, well there is a reason why that is on the soundtrack for this movie. In Norwegian that melody is called Dovregubbens Hall (The Hall of the Dovre man) That being said the mythology have shiften a bit and trolls and hulder have been mixed together, originally in Norwegian folklore Dovregubben was not a troll, he was king to the hulder. Now hulder in Norwegian folklore are creatures that look like human beings but they are active at night and sleep during the day and they have a cow's tail, they have supernatural abilities and are more like elves really than trolls.