Oliphants? Elephants? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

10-14-2002, 09:19 AM

TolkienGurl

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Well, from what I understand, ME oliphaunts were the 'ancestors' of today's elephants.

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...but the Mumak of Harad was indeed a beast of vast bulk, and the like of him does not walk now in Middle-earth; his kin that live still in latter days are but memories of his girth and majesty.

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