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Dinopizzagamer wrote: This is ripped straight from the LOTR Wiki (which lists Mumakil as 40 to 50 feet):

Physical description
Mûmakil resemble elephants, except that they are larger and have six tusks instead of two. Two are on the bottom jaw, two larger tusks are where an elephant's would be, and there were two smaller tusks above those.

No complete Mûmak skeleton has ever been found, but accounts found in both the Red Book of Westmarch and in other scrolls suggest that they stood between fifty and one hundred feet (15 to 30 meters for metric users) tall (although official top trumps suggest a height of around 35 feet or 10 meters), with four huge tusks and two smaller ones to each side of the mouth. When charging into battle, they bellowed and screeched at great volume, and a thunderous din that shook the very earth preceded the advent of their coming and crushing all in their path. Some Mûmakil also seemed to have lighter grey skin than others. Dinopizzagamer wrote: And Tolkien Gateway if you prefer:

Description

"Oliphants lived in the jungles of Far Harad, far to the south of any known maps of Middle-earth, where the Haradrim called them Mûmakil. Massive, often ferocious beasts, their legs were like trees, their bodies were larger than a house, they had enormous sail-like ears, and they had a long snout like a huge serpent. Somehow the Haradrim tamed them and the result was possibly the most brutally effective beast of war that Middle-earth ever saw.

The Haradrim strapped massive, carriage-like tiered towers on the backs of these beasts, and from these towers Haradrim archers and spearmen hurled projectiles down upon their enemies. The mûmak itself, enraged and goaded by its cruel Haradrim masters, would charge through the enemy, trampling archer, swordsman and horse beneath its massive feet." Because these two are such canon sources. It describes what the films show, in large part, of extremely exaggerated African elephants. Perhaps there were Asian elephants there too, with the Easterlings too, which confused them. I'm not saying there were, but there are so many possibilities that it's very much wrong to try and affirm that there certainly were giant elephants.