I recently remembered the 'stone-giants' from the Hobbit and I have never figured out what they were. Here are some quotes:
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When he peeped out in the lightning-flashes, he saw that across the valley the stone-giants were out and were hurling rocks at one another for a game, and catching them, and tossing them down into the darkness where they smashed among the trees far below, or splintered into little bits with a bang.
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They could hear the giants guffawing and shouting all over the mountainsides.
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"If we don't get blown off or drowned, or struck by lightning, we shall be picked up by some giant and kicked sky-high for a football."
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"I must see if I can't find a more or less decent giant to block it up again," said Gandalf
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These Giants seem to clearly be living breathing things, and not an illusion to a mountain or a storm. They can't be trolls because they would have been called such. No where else in the Legendarium have I heard tale of them, anyone have any thoughts?