Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-26553378-20160724223320/@comment-26347028-20160724233938

If we look at how people like the Macedonians saw elephants, we can safely say that brave men, brave soldiers, veterans, were terrified in large part. Now, imagine how a hobbit with little to no experience in battle, besides being physically short, sees them. Yeah, to him they'd be absolutely massive. To the Macedonians they were massive. But to Hobbits even more so, I'd have said. Especially since the Macedonian accounts that survived to be used by historians were from roughly around the time, compared to far later.