User blog comment:High King Ithilion/New Map of Middle-earth!/@comment-26453572-20160624150924/@comment-26347028-20160624153900

And things like Grond being imbued with magic to break the gates of Minas Tirith, and Saruman's voice supposedly being the cause of the storm, are clearly use of artistic liscence on the parts of the hobbits in terms of writing the Red Book of Westmarch. This then increases when the elephants, which they've never seen before, are massive to them and scary. But not so massive as they make them seem to rationalise their fear.