What were the giants?

[Legolas_BowKing]

There are giants mentioned in "The Hobbit" but what were they?
And how come they played no part in the "Lord Of The Rings"?
I am sure that they could of wiped out a few (thousand) Orcs.

[afro-elf]

maybe they were neutral

[Lightice]

My guess is, that they were trolls grown in humongous size. They were called 'stone giants', weren't they?

[afro-elf]

Yeah they were called stone giants

[Ñólendil]

Please don't post one thread in two different forums. Odds are the same people visit both. I moved the other one into the Middle-earth forum as this topic covers both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings (as you apparently observed). The thread can be found here (http://entmoot.tolkientrail.com/showthread.php?threadid=3131).

... Though, come to think of it, webwizard will probably kill me for locking a thread here, The Hobbit needs the posts after all ...

[webwizard333]

Why can't the Middle Earth section close its giant discussion? The giants were only mentioned in the Hobbit, so they belong in this forum.

[Ñólendil]

Well, because the topic is a two part question: (1)What were the Giants in the Hobbit? (2)Why weren't they in the Lord of the Rings? That covers both books, but it shouldn't be in both forums, so I moved one to Middle-earth and closed the other. I knew you wouldn't be happy about it, sorry. It just seemed the most logical thing to do.