The complete family tree of all the creatures in the Lord of the Rings and Tolkien's Middle Earth. During the parting of the Fellowship, Legolas went with Gimli to Aglarond. Legolas promised Gimli that he would go to Aglarond after the war upon hearing the dwarf’s eloquence, if only Gimli would accompany him on a return to Fangorn. He would prefer to pierce his enemies from afar, but his dagger was sometimes used for close combat. Later, Thranduil confronts Tauriel and remarks that Legolas has grown fond of her and that she should not give him hope where there is none, since he is the son of a king and she is only a common woodland elf, even if she is captain of his guard. Gandalf coolly added, "Well met, I say to you again, Legolas!". Legolas' attention is attracted by Orcrist, which he recognizes as a sword from Gondolin.
Peter Jackson also filmed, but never used, footage of Legolas in his new home. Legolas was the son of Thranduil. It consists of Sindarin words laeg ("green") and golas ("a collection of leaves, foliage, being a prefixed collective form of las(s) "leaf"). His horse, Arod, refused to enter the paths, but Legolas calmed him. His loyalty and respectful deference to the decisions of the two leaders, Aragorn and Gandalf, extended even to following them through darkness and unknown horror; of all the Company, he was arguably the most loyal to leadership. In Lake-town, Legolas and Tauriel arrive just in time to rescue Kíli, Fíli, Bofur and Oin from being killed by Bolg. The reason they are included is to show visitors looking for them where they belong and that they are not part of the legendarium. Legolas rode for the last time into battle beside his friends to the Battle of the Morannon. [3] When Gandalf gave his counsel, Legolas voted against passing through Moria. [3], The Fellowship reached the West Gate of Moria, and were halted by the doors fast shut.
[1] He spoke little after his report, if at all, but later was chosen as the representative of the Elves in the Nine Walkers of the Fellowship of the Ring to perform the Quest of the Ring. [2], Legolas in combat with the Goblins during the Skirmish in Balin's Tomb, During their journey, Legolas would stay at the rear due to his keen eyes. Legolas separates himself from Tauriel and assists Thorin by shooting down foes from a tower. Legolas was voiced by Frank Duncan in the 1956 radio series, by John Vickery in the 1979 radio series, and by David Collings in the 1981 BBC Radio 4 adaptation. If you see errors please report them. Amidst the fight, Legolas has to fight several Orcs who intercede, which allows Bolg to escape. 1955: The Lord of the Rings (1955 radio series): 1979: The Lord of the Rings (1979 radio series): 1980: The Return of the King (1980 film): 1981: The Lord of the Rings (1981 radio series): 2002: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (video game): 2001-03: The Lord of the Rings (film series): 2002: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (video game): 2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (video game): 2004: The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring: 2004: The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth: 2006: The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II: 2011: The Lord of the Rings: War in the North: 2013: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug: 2014: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies: The Lord of the Rings: The Treason of Isengard, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, http://www.dynamicduovo.com/aboutgrant.html, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crispin_freeman_fansite/message/9438, 7 movie actors made impossibly young by CGI. Analysis of the dialog of the Hobbit: the Desolation of Smaug.
In the green fields of Lebennin! He was well-known for becoming friends with the dwarf Gimli, despite their long-held differences. He tamed unruly horses with only a few words, without needing reins or saddles. [17] The Quenya translation of Legolas is Laiqualassë.[18][19]. He was grieved, though, that it was winter, and the full glory of the Mellyrn was departed. Later, he and Gimli travelled together to Helm's Deep, visiting the Glittering Caves, and then later traveled through Fangorn Forest. It is disputed whether or not this character was part of Tolkien's final vision.
The Sindarin minority in that realm, who should have been nobler and wiser than the Silvan Elves can be seen as having "gone native" at the end of the First Age: after Morgoth was defeated and all grand Elf-kingdoms of Beleriand were destroyed, the Silvans can be seen as having reverted to a simpler, lowly society. When the council was choosing the "Nine Walkers" to pit against the "Nine Riders," Legolas volunteered to represent the elves, and to become one of the members of the Fellowship that would set out to destroy the One Ring. Lord of the Rings is a FANDOM Movies Community. While at Gundabad, Legolas makes a reference to his mother to Tauriel.
He has been determined to be a member of the ISFP personality type. [7], When the Company was ambushed by orc-archers on the Anduin, Legolas quickly leaped out onto dry ground and up the riverbank with his bow, searching in the darkness for any sign of the Orcs. When he finds Tauriel being attacked by Bolg, Legolas rescues her and confronts Bolg in her stead. After Aragorn's death, Legolas made a ship in Ithilien and left Middle-earth to go over the sea. However, when Legolas was visually rendered as "pretty or lady-like", Tolkien was "wrathful" and added a description as Legolas as: John D. Rateliff speculates in The History of the Hobbit that had Tolkien gone on to finish the 1960 edit of the The Hobbit, proceeding to add to the Mirkwood scenes, it might have been possible Legolas would have been introduced. Before the Fellowship departed from Lothorien, Legolas was given a new Galadhrim longbow.
However, before Legolas left to find Strider, Thranduil assured him that his mother loved him more than life itself. Legolas was present at the Council of Elrond and related the news of Gollum's escape, being quick to add that it was not through lack of vigilance that he slipped their grasp, and gave detailed account of the whole affair to the Council. High resolution interactive map of J.R.R. In the extended version of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), Legolas is shown to hold his liquor very well. Through their over-kindliness to him, however, Gollum managed an escape with the help of Sauron's Orcs. After a hard-fought battle on a collapsing tower, Legolas emerges victorious and returns Orcrist to Thorin. In Lothlórien, he was given a long-bow of the Galadhrim, which was longer and stouter than those of the fashion of Mirkwood.[21]. After the Fellowship parted from Fangorn Forest, he longed to return once more to explore its wonders more thoroughly. Legolas and Tauriel return to the palace, bringing Narzug, a hostage Orc for questioning. Legolas' age is unknown, as is whether or not he had siblings. I picked up the Hobbit for the first time since the Desolation of Smaug and found something I didn't remember.
Camping under the eaves of the forest, Legolas noticed how the tree beneath which they sat seemed glad of the fire they lit, stretching out its limbs and leaves to the heat. He is perhaps most remembered for his friendship with Gimli the Dwarf, and it was during this friendship that we see his faithfulness, and also his love of beauty. Amidst the Paths of the Dead, riding with the Grey Company, Legolas alone, save for Elladan and Elrohir, Elrond's sons, felt no fear of the Oathbreakers, and it may be remembered that the High Elves had power both in the worlds of the seen and unseen.
Son of the Elvenking Thranduil of Mirkwood, Legolas was Mirkwood's prince, a messenger, and a master archer. He hastened to add that they need not fear the Elves. While telling this story later, he stopped there, while Gimli promptly said, "For my part I heeded them not". The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (film) Characters, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (film) Characters, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (film) Characters, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Characters, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Characters, Characters that have appeared in the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (video game), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (video game), The Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle-earth, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II, LEGO The Lord of the Rings: The Video Game, The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game, The History of Eriol or Ælfwine and the End of the Tales, https://www.personalityclub.com/blog/lord-of-the-rings-personality-chart/, https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Legolas?oldid=262928.
Upon entering Fangorn, Legolas declared that he almost felt young again beside those trees.
Gimli's words moved him when the dwarf spoke of the Glittering Caves. Legolas’s actual name is Legolas Thranduilion, “son of Thranduil.” “Greenleaf” is simply the translation of his name into the Common Speech. With his keen eyesight, sensitive hearing, and excellent bowmanship, Legolas was valuable to the Fellowship in their journey across Middle-earth. The Fellowship splashed across the Nimrodel river, feeling their weariness drained away by its cool waters. Later, Legolas watches from the far as Tauriel stands outside Kíli's cell and talks with him. He bore a bow from Mirkwood, and later a Bow of the Galadhrim. The Lurie family tree, on the other hand, is generally considered the oldest, or tallest, family tree in existence. Legolas runs after the escaping Orcs, decapitates Fimbul and confronts Bolg himself, using Thorin's sword Orcrist. When Durin's Bane made its frightful appearance, Legolas was the first to recognize it as a Balrog, and it is the only recorded time he was ever truly afraid: a Balrog held far more terror for an Elf than for any other, for only they remembered where the Demons of Fire had come from and whom they had first served.[4]. [19] However, this character had no further development in the Legendarium and is unrelated to the Legolas of the Fellowship of the Ring. I 1994, Legolas is a character that can be somewhat controlled, however he is an A.I. Along the way, they encounter Bolg and his troops who have killed the Elven guards by the bridge and are attacking the doors. Due to a technical mishap involving Orlando Bloom's contact lenses, Legolas' eye colour in the films sometimes changes between brown and blue. Upon being surprised and questioned by the Elves of Lórien who were watching from a tree, Legolas responded cautiously in their own tongue. Such a friendship was rare between the two races, on account of the long-standing grievances between Dwarves and Elves dating back to the Elder Days. Redesign of the genealogy to better fit with the layout of the rest of LotrProject. Legolas famously used an Elven bow, as well as a long, white knife. You are a Wood-elf, anyway, though Elves of any kind are strange folk.” Legolas would later reverse this declaration at the Hornburg. As Legolas gives out the orders, a soldier informs him that Tauriel has left the forest.
He was praised by the rest of the Company for this, especially Gimli. Later he asserted to Aragorn that the beasts sounded joyful, confirming Aragorn’s own guess. Legolas was a Sinda Elf, the prince of the Woodland Realm of Mirkwood. As the Shadow approached, he bent the great bow of Lórien and shot the descending Fell beast from the sky, one of his most masterful deeds. There are also. Legolas was dispatched to Rivendell to bring this ill news to Elrond and Gandalf.[1]. His capabilities would prove invaluable to the Company.
As they rested on the shore, Legolas told the tales of Lothlórien still remembered by the Mirkwood Elves and sang to them part of the Song of Nimrodel.