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"Gandalf! (...) Not the fellow who used to tell such wonderful tales at parties, about dragons and goblins and giants (...)?" (fala de Bilbo)
"(...) he saw that across the valley the stone-giants were out and were hurling rocks at one another for a game (...)"
"They could hear the giants guffawing and shouting all over the mountainsides".
"(...) we shall be picked up by some giant and kicked sky-high for a football". (fala de Thorin)
"(...) and was far from happy about the giants himself". (descrição de Gandalf)
"As they passed under the arch, it was good to hear the wind (...) and to feel safe from the giants and their rocks".
"Poor Bilbo sat in the dark thinking of all the horrible names of all the giants and ogres he had ever heard told of in tales (...)".
"I must see if I can't find a more or less decent giant to block it up again (...) or soon there will be no getting over the mountain at all". (fala de Gandalf)
"(...) or a huge piece cast miles into the plain by some giant among giants".
"Some say that he is a bear descended from the great and ancient bears that lived there before the giants came". (descrição de Beorn)
"There was a terrible storm; the stone-giants were out hurling rocks (...)" (Gandalf descrevendo o ocorrido)
"(...) a blown smote the side of the Mountain like the crash of batteringrams made of forest oaks and swung by giants" .
"(...) giant size in his wrath (...)". (descrição de Beorn)
"(...) he saw that across the valley the stone-giants were out and were hurling rocks at one another for a game (...)"
"They could hear the giants guffawing and shouting all over the mountainsides".
"(...) we shall be picked up by some giant and kicked sky-high for a football". (fala de Thorin)
"(...) and was far from happy about the giants himself". (descrição de Gandalf)
"As they passed under the arch, it was good to hear the wind (...) and to feel safe from the giants and their rocks".
"Poor Bilbo sat in the dark thinking of all the horrible names of all the giants and ogres he had ever heard told of in tales (...)".
"I must see if I can't find a more or less decent giant to block it up again (...) or soon there will be no getting over the mountain at all". (fala de Gandalf)
"(...) or a huge piece cast miles into the plain by some giant among giants".
"Some say that he is a bear descended from the great and ancient bears that lived there before the giants came". (descrição de Beorn)
"There was a terrible storm; the stone-giants were out hurling rocks (...)" (Gandalf descrevendo o ocorrido)
"(...) a blown smote the side of the Mountain like the crash of batteringrams made of forest oaks and swung by giants" .
"(...) giant size in his wrath (...)". (descrição de Beorn)
Então 13 vezes (considerando 'giant among giants' como uma só ocorrência). Além disso temos 'giant spiders' (duas vezes), 'giant oaks' e 'giant bees', mas aí acho que não conta né.
Interessante que olhando os trechos todos juntos dá pra tentar bolar uma hipótese sobre o que são esses gigantes. Fica primeiramente claro que eles faziam parte do 'folclore'. A lenda podertia ter tido início com humanos de linhagem 'pré-hadoriana' (isso é, homens que em Beleriand originaram o povo de Hador, e mais à leste os rohirrim, o homens de Rhovanion e Esgaroth, os beornings, etc) mas com diferenças bastante acentuadas em relação aos homens em geral, da mesma forma que os drúedain (ligados ao povo de Haleth e aos 'pré-haladin') e os hobbits. Aliás, os 'meio-trolls' descritos em O Senhor dos Anéis poderiam ser algo bastante análogo.
Os beornings (ou pelo menos parte do povo de Beorn, incluindo a casa de Beorn) poderia ter uma veia 'gigante' mais acentuada. Porém, os 'gigantes de pedra' ali eu entendo apenas como uma metáfora, um misticismo, uma atribuição de um fenômeno natural aos gigantes. Esse misticismo pode originar até de uma 'magia' real que por algum motivo reside na casa de Beorn (sua habilidade de transformarem em ursos), ou até de gigantes humanos que ainda existiam e viviam nas redondezas e retinham também uma tendência mágica.
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