Stenens betydelse måste vara att Peter Jackson tyckte att det var coolt. Det finns inget omnämnande i boken.
Treebeard berättar Merry och Pippin som Entmoot möter på Derndingle (namnet är arkaiskt engelska, vilket betyder "hemlig dal").
‘Where is Entmoot?’ Pippin ventured to ask.
‘Hoo, eh? Entmoot?’ said Treebeard, turning round. ‘It is not a place, it is a gathering of Ents – which does not often happen nowadays. But I have managed to make a fair number promise to come. We shall meet in the place where we have always met: Derndingle Men call it. It is away south from here. We must be there before noon.’
The Two Towers: Treebeard
När de anländer till Derndingle läser vi:
The hobbits saw that they were descending into a great dingle, almost as round as a bowl, very wide and deep, crowned at the rim with the high dark evergreen hedge. It was smooth and grassclad inside, and there were no trees except three very tall and beautiful silver-birches that stood at the bottom of the bowl.
The Two Towers: Treebeard
Ingen sten nämns, även om Jackson kunde hävda att det bara var en övervakning.