#oliphaunts

Three days we remained in Dun Camulus – Camulodunum, the Red Crests had begun to call it, in their own tongue. And I saw the great war-beasts that Claudius had brought with him. Elephants, they are called; and they are not magic, only strange to us. Mighty indeed are those beasts, and their drivers sit astride their necks behind their great flapping ears; and on their backs in battle they carry things like wheel-less chariots in which archers and javelin men ride. Yet out of battle they are oddly gentle, and if their driver lies down in front of them, they will feel for him as delicately as a maiden picking flowers, with the tip of the long waving thing that grows from their heads where their muzzles should be, and step over him not harming a hair of his head.

One of my favorite fantasy creatures is from lord of the rings, when jrr Tolkien created animals that are just... elephants but Big and named oliphaunts