New tronc mascot Tronc the troll. “Using a monster from The Fellowship of the Ring may seem like a counterintuitive choice,” says tronc Desperation Manager Ernest Layoff, “but if you stop to think about it, you remember that cave trolls are extremely powerful. And while you wouldn’t want it to get out of hand, it does have a chain around its neck that makes it both useful and manageable…to an extent. We think that expresses the new platform pretty much perfectly."