Fun fact: the stone giants were not originally part of the film, but one day they started horsing around while the crew was filming and Peter Jackson said "keep recording"
In the Simarilion there are battles mentioned between what you can see as the gods or higher beeings of the Lord of the Rings. And it says that it was so powerfull it literaly shaped the land, created mountains and filled seas where none have been before. I guess this is what it must have looked like.
Yes, perhaps at the very beginning, battles like this occurred between the Vala themselves. However Ancalagon the great Dragon was definitely larger than these stone giants.
@@CeruleanSword Yes but it is not only about size. It is also about the sher power. Take Morgoth for example who created Ancalagon and who ruled over Sauron basically.
@@CeruleanSword This thunder battle seems to be a scaled down version of that. And taking into account how they are throwing mountains at eachother... Thinking about that shivers me to the bone.
What if the Storm Giants battling are actually an aftereffect from the old world, an impression left behind from the War of Powers between the young Valar and Melkor, when they battled for the world. Melkor would be imprisoned for his misdeeds after the world would be reshaped from flat to round, but their impressions left the Storm Giants battling forever after.
@@teleportedbreadfor3days The earth has always been flat but satan changed it from flat earth to cgi globe-lie. The rocks and mountains are all petrified, giant silicon based tree stumps, titans and giants. The hellywood movies have to put some truth and there you have it folks, truth in plain sight. Have you connected the dots yet? After the flood of Noah, the earth was shaped by the impact of the fountains of the great deep that were broken up and drowned these monsters in the process and you see them all around you. Rocks and mountains never existed. We have been lied to for a very, very long time. It is time to wake up to the truth.
Funny thing, in the the book´s Chapter IV: "Over Hill and Under Hill" Bilbo spoted the stone giants. The scene was very different from the movie but is the only time in the legendarium that Tolkien speaks about the Stone Giants. Thou, the Misty Mountains were created by Melkor during the Time of the Trees, who wanted to make it difficult for Oromë to pass, as he often rode across Middle-earth hunting the Dark Lord's fell beasts, maybe giants are part of Melkor twisted creations, but theres no record of the Stone Giants nature (good or evil), in the book The Hobbit they were "playing" by tossing rocks around.
Can you imagine a world where ANY MOUNTAIN might be a stone giant in disguise? Like what if each of the tallest mountains in the world could be a giant just sleeping? Wild lol
2:36 exactly why Thorin is the leader. They all have their own individual qualities but dude was ready to throw down with the mountain that they have all just witnessed fighting another mountain. Balls of steel this one 😂
@@brotherbarbatos8981 they are considerably bloated is the main complaint, especially when referring to the source material. The Hobbit book is 1/5 the length of The Lord of the Rings series, while the Hobbit trilogy is 3/4 the length of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
This scene is amazing, and the giants are really cool, but the only thing I can focus on every time I watch it is that despite all the noise of everything else, you can still hear Fili screaming for his brother.
It was a good sign of a grand adventure on the Hobbit's unexpected journey. This scene was a completely unexpected scene, and many people who were new to the reality of Giant Stone might have wondered, but the more I thought about it, the more surprising, amazing, and creepy it was. In particular, the scene where Stone Giant was hit by a stone and shouted caught my ears. This is the first time in the history of The Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit, and I can only admire it. It was reminiscent of the scene where a huge stone was thrown at Gondor Castle in The Lord of the Rings 3 and paid for a group of Orcs. Personally, when I think of the Hobbit, this first scene comes to mind and I can't forget it. So I think I'll come back later. I learn that humans are only weak beings before nature.
I don't care about the hate this trilogy gets. Yes, it's longer than the actual book, but just accept it for what it is and appreciate it. Unexpected journey is definitely the weakest of the 3 but this scene is so damn epic. Always gives me chills watching it
The thing I hated the most about this movie was the way Thorin was with bilbo! In book Thorin wasn’t too crazy about the idea of bilbo tagging along with them but he was never disrespectful or hateful towards bilbo his character got better in the later 2 movies but they really butchered Thorins character in the first one
Not really. They are only briefly mentioned in the book. There is a caveat to their existence, however, and a reason as to why I (along with a lot of others) interpret their description as metaphors for the ensuing storm. When Tolkien initially wrote The Hobbit, he had no plan for it to be part of his legendarium, or even Middle Earth for that matter. As such, giants were definitely, at the time, intended to be actual physical beings. Not only does the narrator explicitly mention the giants, but so do Thorin and Gandalf. If you were to read The Hobbit as it was intended in the late 1930's, a standalone children's book, the stone giants were actual physical beings. Then Tolkien started fleshing out his world for Lord of the Rings and realized he had to make The Hobbit part of that legendarium. During this reconciliation, he did a bit of retconning. All mentions of giants were systematically eliminated and eventually evolved into the ents and the trolls. Giants weren't just "not mentioned," they canonically became something else entirely, leaving no room for a literal interpretation in The Hobbit. If one is to reconcile The Hobbit with The Lord of the Rings, they must acknowledge Tolkien's retcon, thereby interpreting the giants as anthropomorphism of the storm.
There's actual evidence of actual *human giants* that existed at Lundy Island a *tiny* island south of Wales where they would have fights throwing massive stones at each other that made me think back to this scene. Was that what Tolkien was referring to being a true native and historian of England? Whether or not the two are connected it certainly proves a point.
Stone giants are mentioned in the book, but I always thought it was a metaphor. It wasn't a big scene like this though, more of a single comment. Tolkien seemingly scrapped giants from his series though. They appeared in a lot of early drafts of his stories, but were slowly phased out or replaced with other creatures.
Yeah, these giants were in the book. but I always pictured them in my head as giant humans rather than giant rock creatures. Also, you do have to note that the hobbit was written 20 years before the Lord of the Rings, so Tolkien didn't really have a super clear picture of his world yet.
I was into this movie right up until this ridiculous scene. Gratuitous action that made zero sense except to add minutes to the first installment of a 300 page book. Weak. So weak. 😂
@ I think similarly to you. It could’ve been done better. Our characters don’t need to always be in the middle of it… a view from afar or something would’ve felt a lot better!
Funny how it was the opposite to me. The first half was such a chore to sit through that I had to stop in Rivendell and continue the movie in other day. After they leave Rivendell the film got good for me and this was the best scene lol
@@ericarthedain In the books, the giants thing may have been a metaphor, and it was described as happening really, really far away from them, also it lasted like half a page. This isn't it.