What begame of the Giganto-Trees?

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Originally Posted by Rumil

Perhaps the giganto-trees (nice term by the way) were destroyed in the cataclysm but ended up, as trees will, being turned to rich coal seams over the eons. Could explain the presence of the coal that Thorin et al took up mining when they were down on their luck?

Good point. I had always thought the appearance of coal something of an anachronism, like the steam train. It kind of makes sense, I suppose. A binding of the works of Aule and Yavana; the coal, made from Yavana's greatest creation, mined by the Dwarves, the greatest of Aule's. Almost poetic.

I still like the idea that they were the ents, though.