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Rumil · 05-07-2011, 03:52 AM

Interesting Alfirin,

I'd forgotten that bit about the Lossoth, it sounds at least possible. I reckon that if the oliphants did exist in Forochel they would have to be wooly to survive.

Agree that the oliphants of the Haradrim aren't wooly, and the six tusks thing was indeed a PJ-ism, no indication of more than two tusks in the books.

So perhaps a wooly mammoth-like species in the far North and a mastodon/ stegodont/ stegomastodon in the South?

05-07-2011, 03:52 AM	#26
Rumil Sage & Onions Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Britain Posts: 894	Heffalump Interesting Alfirin, I'd forgotten that bit about the Lossoth, it sounds at least possible. I reckon that if the oliphants did exist in Forochel they would have to be wooly to survive. Agree that the oliphants of the Haradrim aren't wooly, and the six tusks thing was indeed a PJ-ism, no indication of more than two tusks in the books. So perhaps a wooly mammoth-like species in the far North and a mastodon/ stegodont/ stegomastodon in the South? __________________ Rumil of Coedhirion