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==Description==
Employed as a beast of burden by the mercenaries of the Northern Marches, the Dorn, the ''mûmakil'' were also used in battle during the wars of the Last Age. In battle, they carry tower-like structures on their backs. 

These beasts had skin so thick, it was almost impenetrable&mdash;making them almost invulnerable to arrows.  The only known way to kill one was to shoot it in the eye, doubtless a very difficult task to perform. Also, as with real elephants, horses unfamiliar to them refused to go near them, making them effective against enemy cavalry. Southern folk have implied that the creatures became extinct and that its "kin that live still in latter days are but memories of his girth and majesty."

''Mûmakil'' are 50-100 feet or 15-30 meters tall, much larger than today's elephants with two sets of large tusks, one set in the upper jaw with a further set of smaller tusks, and another in the lower (like in the extinct ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinotherium Deinotherium]'') . The giant tusks hang close to ground level, and carry either spiked sleeves for hitting enemies, or house a broad barbed wire suspended between them, used for simply grinding anything in front of the animal down. Also, their skin is cut by blades and pierced by arrows relatively easily, though their hides are so tough they seem to shrug off any pain.