GREAT BEASTS drew it, Orcs surrounded it, and behind walked mountain-trolls to wield it." "Grond they named it, in memory of the Hammer of the Underworld of old. I just looked through my copy of LOTR and it says it was pulled by 'great beasts'. (I'm probably not fun at parties) But I hope it helped a little bit. Sorry for the long ass comment, it's usually like this when I write them. But in the radio series (1968) it says 'Great Oliphants' so perhaps this was a mistake on either part, I don't know. So the only way Hobbits could've known about Oliphants is from talk of other peoples.Īlthough, in The Hobbit, Gandalf says 'great elephants', so perhaps 'Oliphant' is a Hobbit's corruption of this original word, and Gandalf knows it differently. But Dol Guldur was constructed and a shadow fell on the forest and it was given the name Mirkwood, and the Hobbits moved to the realm part of the old kingdom of Arnor now known as The Shire. Hobbits' used to reside on the east side of the Misty Mountains between 'Greenwood the Great' (Mirkwood's old name). There's no record at all of Hobbits other than Bilbo & Frodo Baggins, Samwise Gamgee, Meriadoc Brandybuck, and Peregrin Took going any further then forest of Mirkwood as far as I can tell. Of course we know they were in fact telling the truth. Sam specifically says "No one at home's gonna believe this" when he sees a group of Oliphants, because Hobbits are so simple, they probably believe the Oliphants to be a myth, or lie, after all the Rangers of the North are 'Queer Folk' and may not have been telling the truth to them. It just so happens the Rangers maybe called these beasts Oliphants, or maybe they gave them the name 'Oliphant' and the Hobbits picked the name up from them. They write, tell, and preserve many stories and songs. This talk has probably been rumored around and put into the Hobbits' own stories and songs, because we know Hobbits are very literate. The Hobbit's know about Mûmakil because the Rangers of the North tell stories to them of their own stories of adventures to people in the Shire realm (likely Bree) of the great Oliphants. It is said that Aragorn, (as a Ranger), has trodden past the Hills of Rhûn to the realms of the Haradrim, this is where Mûmakil dwell, and he's probably not the only one, or even the first, for that matter. Oliphant is the name in Westron (the common tongue), Mûmakil is Harad (Haradrim language). The official name of these beasts is actually 'Oliphant', but the Haradrim people who rode and tamed them call them a Mûmak.
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