They could not be fought effectively by mounted men, for horses refused to go near them, nor by footmen, who were quickly crushed or shot from above. With their trunks they struck down many foes, and their tusks were red with the blood of their enemies. They had a natural blood-lust, and many foes were crushed beneath their feet. The Mûmakil that the Haradrim brought to the Battle of the Pelennor Fields were harnessed with red banners, bands and trappings of gold and brass, and on their backs great war towers from which archers and spearmen fought. In the years of the War of the Ring, the fierce warriors of Harad came north to Gondor at the call of Sauron, and with their legions they brought the great Mûmakil, which they used as beasts of war. According to the Red Book, they were bigger than a house. In southern Harad during the Third Age, there lived beasts of vast bulk thought to be ancestors of elephants, which would be much smaller in size. Oliphants charging towards the Rohirrim at the Battle of the Pelennor Fields

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