The stone 🧌Giants

[Vorathion]

What happens to them in the time of the second war of the ring?
Do They rebel in the misty mountains like the ents did,only on the MM orcs? or do they go to mordor what do you think?

 

[Maeglin]

I assume that you are referring to the Stone Giants mentioned in the Hobbit? Well they were only mentioned very briefly in The Hobbit, and they were not mentioned at all in LotR, I think Tolkien may have forgotten about them, either that or he felt they were not a significant part of the story, so they were not mentioned. I don't think anyone knows what happened to them, thats for you to decide on your own, give them your own story.

 

[jallan]

In The Treason of Isengard, chapter XXII, "Treebeard", Christopher Tolkien provides a page of pencilled notes by his father, most asking himself questions about the Ents and about Treebeard.

One of notes reads:

Difference between trolls – stone inhabited by goblin-spirit, stone-giants, and the ‘tree-folk’. [Added in ink: Ents.]

I believe this is the only mention of "stone-giants" outside The Hobbit in anything published by Tolkien. He was obviously planning to compare and contrast Ents, stone-giants, and stone-trolls, but never did, at least in anything so far published.

The explanation of trolls as "stone inhabited by goblin-spirit" is not in agreement with what little we find in the published Lord of the Rings.