** Stone-giants** first appeared in The Hobbit. It was their only known appearance, although they are mentioned briefly inThe Fellowship of the Ring. They first appeared in Chapter 4 (Over Hill And Under Hill), where they are described as hurling rocks at one another as in a game, during a violent thunderstorm. Bilbo, Gandalf, and the thirteen Dwarves, if they actually saw them, were the only ones Tolkien mentioned as ever having seen them. Their physical form was not explained, nor was much else about them, leading some to read the Stone-giants as a metaphor for crashing thunderbolts, or something similar. The rocks were described as smashing the trees they fell upon, therefore they must have been very large and very heavy, and therefore the giants must have been very strong. Also, the stone-giants were said to be able to reach heights as tall as forty feet high, as told only in the Red Book of Westmarch.

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