I thought it was funny at 3 am

I woke up around 3 am and couldn't fall back to sleep this morning. I turned on the TV and started watching a show on the National Geographic channel about elephants. The narrator said and I am paraphrasing "People have been using elephants for war long before Lord of the Rings". I really think he should of said before LOTR was written since I am pretty sure LOTR wasn't a time in our history. Not to mention those technical weren't elephants in LOTR.