In my understanding Elephants and Oliphants are seperate creatures. In the same line, but different. Oliphants were the larger of the two and used more for war then anything else.
Gandalf uses the expression, "Great Eliphants", in the the Hobbit.
True, Sharkey. But you can't deny me the simple pleasure of posting the "common insult". [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]
|