2013年8月11日 · The little story of "The Hobbit" was something that he had apparently told several times over the years to his children (i.e. Christopher Tolkien recalls "winter readings" of it) and which he had then written down (possibly more than one version), and apparently because his children talked about it frequently, he ended up passing a later manuscript version of it …

2013年3月11日 · That makes no sense whatsoever. Plus the context of the question was, were the stone giants real in The Hobbit? The answer is yes! The description of the stone giants in The Hobbit are pretty scarce, other then they have arms and legs and could throw rocks that sounded like thunder when they landed. The rest is open for interpretation.

2016年9月17日 · As for the stone-giants as mentioned in the Hobbit, there's not a lot of information to go on. Apart from the passage above, there's really only two interesting bits in there. Gandalf explains of Beorn that: Some say that he is a bear descended from the great and ancient bears of the mountains that lived there before the giants came.

2021年8月24日 · Giants, like the movie depicts, were what the original story would have been (well, not that big), but the original version was written before Tolkien had The Hobbit as an actual part of his legendarium and it was also written very early when "giants" existed.

2015年3月9日 · Actually I'm quite sure the stone giants were in the book as well. Edit: "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 below, or splintered into little bits with a bang" …

2020年9月26日 · The Stone Giants are definitely a mysterious race in Tolkien’s Works. But i was wondering are they canon? They are mentioned in The Hobbit so in a way you could see them as canon but they are not mentioned any where else in the books and you must also remember that The Hobbit was just a children’s book not originally intended to be part of the Legendarium …

2021年12月31日 · Also, The Hobbit pulls from earlier conceptions of Tolkien's Legendarium, in which Giants as a species were most certainly a thing, and even when he was first starting to reimagine the legendarium with the early drafts of The Lord of the Rings, the concept of giants stuck for a while, with Gandalf having originally ben imprisoned not by Saruman ...

As noted by others, the giants of The Hobbit evolve into the ents of LotR, with the possible exception of whatever Sam's cousin really saw. However, I would argue the stone giants of The Hobbit also evolve into Caradhras in LotR. Instead of giants throwing stones in the mountains, the mountain itself is sentient, and throws snow at the Fellowship.

Just always found it odd when watching the movie that they just come across Giants battling while going through the mountains. It's been forever since I read the book so I don't remember if it was in there, but in the movie it's like they were trying to capture the same feeling from Lord of the Rings, but in that there was a reason for the ...

I don't think Tolkien really went into detail about "stone giants" or if this is even what you are referring to, or if what Tolkien initially meant by "stone giants" being goblin spirit possessed rocks were the same as the "stone giants" that Bilbo sees throwing rocks in the Hobbit.