Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-27340559-20160217041615

As I understand, Stone Giants aren't going to be added to the mod, because they don't really exist.

In the LOTR wiki it says: "During the writing of LOTR, Tolkien also toyed with the difference between Trolls and Ents, where that Trolls were stone inhabited by a goblin-spirit. Thus trolls were stone-giants, and Ents were the tree-giants." Based on this, I think Stone Giants are effectively trolls. It was also stated in The Hobbit that that the three trolls Thorin and Company met came down from the mountains.

I suggest a new kind of troll, maybe the Stone Troll (considering that normal trolls turn into stone, this is not a very good name, I know). They could simply be called Stone Giants and be categorizied with trolls, but I'm reluctant to call them that as Stone Giants were rejected. They would spawn in the Misty Mountains, have a stonier skin than a normal troll, and be much taller, about the same height as an ent. They would have a blocky skin in and only spawn in caves or against cliff-faces in order to blend into the environment much like huorns. They would be neutral towards everything unless attacked. During the day they would turn to statues, but be revived in the night unless broken. During thunderstorms, they would rarely skirmish and throw rocks, like mountain trolls, at each other.

Failing that, trolls and mountain trolls should be added to the Misty Mountains and the latter should skirmish during thunderstorms. I suggest normal trolls should also only attack players with >-5 Angmar alignment, as the trolls in The Hobbit didn't show immediate hostility, and the Stone Giants aren't sided with evil. 