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Old 02-09-2005, 05:38 PM   #1
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Other than shouting, "Ware! Ware!" and appealing to the Valar for help, you mean? According to the History Channel, Hannibal's elephants took fright at the Romans' horses and were much less aggressive in their presence. And Wikipedia.com tells me this: But who knows how much spare bacon the Gondorians had to fry up just for their breakfast guests from Harad?
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Old 02-09-2005, 06:02 PM   #2
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Big caltrops.

Loud trumpets could sometimes scare them too.
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Old 02-09-2005, 06:12 PM   #3
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I think that in Roman times they also used pigs to scare the elephants. Perhaps Gondor had a hidden hog farm reserved in case of Mumak attacks?

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[edit:] I should probably read links more thoroughly... but I'll leave this post here, just for anyone who, like me, was too lazy to read the Wikipedia article all the way through.
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Old 02-09-2005, 08:30 PM   #4
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Old 02-10-2005, 08:46 AM   #5
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I think I'll stick to my caltrops and trumpets. They smell much nicer and don't require food.
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