"God Of The Woods"
"God of the Woods"
2018
Asian Elephant (Elephas maximus)
The Asian Elephant is without question my favorite animal. It's not the biggest or most imposing of elephant species, but it is to my taste the most elegant, with an almost mythical grace. And it hails from what I consider it the most interesting and beautiful eco-regions in the world.
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But the Black Captain established a camp at Andrath, where the Greenway passed in a defile between the Barrow-downs and the South Downs; and from there some others were sent to watch and patrol the eastern borders, while he himself visited the Barrow-downs. In notes of the movements of the Black Riders at that time it is said that the Black Captain stayed there for some days, and the Barrow-wights were roused, and all things of evil spirit, hostile to Elves and Men, were on the watch with malice in the Old Forest and on the Barrow-downs.
-"Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth", by J.R.R. Tolkien
"Ancient Rituals"
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African Bush Elephant (Loxodonta africana)