Giants

Giants were a mysterious race living in the Misty Mountains and North Moors of Middle-earth.
== History ==
The origins of Giants are unknown, as is when exactly they first appeared in Middle-earth; however, it seems that they entered the history of the peoples of Middle-earth in the Third Age.
=== In The Hobbit ===
Stone-giants are described as fighting each other as well as throwing rocks. They appeared as hewn from stone, and as the size of mountains - indistinguishable from a cliff-face when still.
Gandalf used to tell stories to Bilbo when he was young at parties about dragons, goblins, giants, and rescue of princesses, and the luck of widow's sons. During the riddle game Bilbo thought of all the giants and Ogres he had heard of in tales.
At one point Bilbo saw a rock in a stream, and wondered if it had been cast miles into the plain by some giant among giants. He also compared being struck like the crash of battering-rams made of forest oaks and swung by giants.[citation needed]
Gandalf later remarked that he would like to find 'a more or less decent giant' to block several of the orc caves.
=== In The Lord of the Rings ===
Giants of the type mentioned in the Red Book of Westmarch are not so much as mentioned in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. It is believed that as Tolkien expanded the Middle-earth cosmology, he simply dropped giants from it.
In some of Tolkien's earliest writings giants were among the Úvanimor, or monster-folk, that were bred in the earth by Melkor (called Melko in the early tales) along with monsters, Nauglath (wicked dwarves), and ogres.
Two giants are given names in The Book of Lost Tales Part Two: Gilim and Nan. In addition some of Tolkien's other material there was Wade (who may be or have been based on a sea-giant of legend) and Noroth, said to be a giant.