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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.


 * 1) 1. The LotR Wiki simply describes the movie Mumakil. There is absolutely nothing in the book that corresponds with it. That's why I do not use the LotR wiki.


 * 1) 2. Tolkien Gateway is generally more canon, but these things mentioned are based off of assumption and not book quotes. Doubtless most it stands to reason, but, as I said, there is nothing there suggesting that they were anything more than Elephants.


 * 1) 3. Tolkien intended the Annotated Map to be of the flora and fauna of Middle-earth. If Mumakil were different from Elephants, he would have written something other than "Elephants". He would have made them different in some way

It's my belief that you guys have been influenced a little by the movie version tbh. If one goes strictly off the book, they come up with this.

http://img-fan.theonering.net/~rolozo/images/lee/lee30.jpg

Ithilion, Discussions Moderator (Auta i lome) 12:42, July 21, 2016 (UTC)