Mountain Giant

Mountain Giants are very rare creatures that possess incredible strength. They appear similar to trolls, though are physically larger and more distinct from them. Their main enjoyment apparently is throwing boulders, and live in the far north where such boulders are plentiful. Though normally content to their dangerous (to smaller races) pursuits and usually neutral, a few have an unusual alliance with the goblin king Gorkil, who promices them more intresting 'targets' for their boulders.

They appear in battle for middle earth 2 as the goblins can train them. They seem to have a reddish tinge to them and throw the largest boulders in the game. They cost 1000 in money and 75 command points. However the attack trolls of mordor are better. J.R.R. Tolkien only mentions giants in The Hobbit, in which they appear in the background of one scene, and are referred to on a few other occasions. Bilbo and the Dwarves are trapped by orcs when they seek shelter from giants and the weather, and Gandalf later remarks that he would like to find "a more or less decent giant" to block several of the orc caves. They also have a brief mention at the beginning of chapter 3 of Fellowship of the Ring.

[ [Category:Creatures Mountain giants are the equivilent in size and strenght to ents which makes them a great foe to the free peoples of Middle-Earth. The goblins of the Misty mountains persuaded a handful of mountain giants to fight for them. As said above in The lord of the rings battle for Middle-Earth their main enjoment and attack is throwing large boulders into enemie lines.

This mountain giant is probably based on the Jotun of Norse Mythology which are simialar in strengh and bestial. However this mountain giant differs from the look of the Norse mountain giant, which look fairly human in appearence but bigger while Middle Earth Mountain Giants have a much longer neck and does not look human much.