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Dates
Apparently became extinct after the end of the Third Age1
Location
Originated in the southern lands of the Harad
Species
Evidently related to modern elephants
Meaning
Ultimately from Old High German olbenta, meaning 'camel'2
Other names
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"Oliphaunt am I,
Biggest of all, Huge, old, and tall." A word for the southern monsters also known as Mûmakil, evidently gigantic cousins of the modern elephant. Oliphaunt is a real word from ancient English. Notes
See also...Bays, Last Desert, Men out of the South, Mice, Rhymes of Lore, Sunlands, Swertings, The South Indexes: About this entry:
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