Oliphaunt (poem)
Oliphaunt is the title of a short comic poem about the beast quoted by the hobbit Samwise Gamgee to Gollum as they and Frodo Baggins rested in the dell before the Morannon. It was a piece of traditional bestiary lore of the Shire-hobbits.
Poem excerpt
Grey as a mouse,
Big as a house,
Nose like a snake,
I make the earth shake,
As I tramp through the grass;
Trees crack as I pass.
Other versions of the legendarium
An early version of the poem was published as Iumbo, or ye Kinde of ye Oliphaunt in The Stapeldon Magazine, Oxford, vol. 7, no. 40 in June 1927 on pages 125-127.
Portrayal in adaptations
2024: The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim:
At one point in the film, it is mentioned that the Rohan has a poem about Oliphaunts, implying that the Rohirrim are either aware of the Hobbit poem or that they have their own variation of the Hobbit poem.
Referencias
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