The unknowns of middle-earth.

[Inziladun]

Originally Posted by Galadriel55

What about Stone-Giants in the Misty Mountains?

Meh, I don't put a lot of faith in the stone-giants even existing. There's only that one mention in The Hobbit that has them living in the Misty Mountains. Since those mountains were basically the "gateway of the west" in ME, and very heavily travelled, it seems odd that only Bilbo, in all the available histories, ever spoke of them. I think Bilbo just slipped that into the story to spice up the early bits. That, or he wrote that chapter after just emptying the beer-barrel in the cellar.