This would be a Haradrim warrior riding a giant elephant known as a Mumak in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth mythos, the setting of his famous Lord of the Rings novel series. The people called Haradrim are basically the stand-ins for African people in Tolkien’s world, occupying the region to Middle Earth’s south. Unfortunately, as might be expected for a story authored by a White Englishman back in the 1950s, the Haradrim (as well as the Asian-based people of Rhun to the east) were mostly fighting on behalf of the bad guys against the heroic European stand-ins. The racist implications of that setup should be obvious to any modern observer.
By the way, my portrayal of the Mumak was inspired in part by the prehistoric Palaeoloxodon namadicus, a cousin of the modern African forest elephant which may have been the biggest elephant species known to exist.
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