The
Tolkien Monster Encyclopedia
by Calle Mattsson
This page is devoted to
all
the monsters and races belonging to darkness.
Here you will find Orcs, Goblins, Balrogs
and many more fearsome creatures.
Stone-giant
Bilbo, Gandalf and the dwarves in the
Misty
Mountains met a thunderstorm - more than a thunderstorm, a
thunderbattle
(The Hobbit). They saw great stone-giants who were hurling
stones
at one another for a game, and catching them, and tossing them down
into
the darkness where they smashed among the trees far below. They could
hear
the giants guffawing and shouting all over the mountainsides.
The Mountain-path