Oh, god, no. I'll be old and grey before they've finished with the balrog's wings. In the book, it says that the haradrim put towers on top of the oliphaunts, so they must have been pretty big. Bigger than todays elephants certainly. Then again, the north african elephants which hannibal's army used when they crossed the alps are now extinct.
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