#legolas lore

[silvantransthranduiltrash]

Out of all the siblings, legolas is the slowest to anger (this is a hc about my au). Unless you legitimately do something to piss him off, like put his loved ones in danger, he will take everything in stride with an air of nonchalance. It’s not that he doesn’t care, it’s just that he’s immortal and thinks it’s way to exhausting to get mad at every little thing. Especially given the circumstances of him growing up in greenwood/mirkwood where there’s always something happening.

As a result, on the quest legolas comes across as very casual about the quest to those who don’t know him. Bc on one hand, yeah it’s an important task, but on the other hand he isn’t really afraid or interested in fucking up bc he let his emotions get out of control.

Besides, outside of Aragorn, Legolas liked the questers well enough, but not to the point where he’d rage at someone threatening them. That changed more over time, obviously, but the fact of the matter is that in the beginning he would have sacrificed any of the walkers, minus aragorn, in a heart beat if it meant succeeding. Thankfully, he isn’t so paranoid or malicious that he felt he would need to, so he just stayed the nice, casual, chill elf he is throughout the quest.

I cannot stress enough how, on one hand, yes, legolas knew and thought the quest and subsequent battles important, on the other hand: fuck it, it’s just a normal day for him. What’s one more battle?

Not enough troops? Outnumbered? Dirty and tired and hopeless? Well damn, that’s happened so often at that point he doesn’t bat an eye.

Legolas is intimately familiar with the death and despair the likes of sauron causes, so he chooses the act positive, he chooses to be casual and happy. He’s not oblivious to the growing shadow, he just refuses to let sauron dictate his life any more than he already is.

It does result him in looking very flighty to his cowalkers though.

*at aragorn and Arwen’s wedding*

Faramir, musing: you know, legolas is much less serious than i would have thought an elf to be. He’s a very light hearted and happy individual and i don’t think i’ve seen him mad at all during the time that i’ve known him. Even during the battles against sauron.

Silvan elf, who overheard him: no one’s managed to piss him off in over a century, and that’s a good thing. Trust me, that’s not an elf who’s temper you want to test, because once you do, it’s quite terrifying.

Eomer, approaching them: really? Because i know i made him mad when i had threatened gimli during our first encounter on the plains.

Silvan: *snorting* trust me, if he actually felt threatened, he’d have lobbed your head off before you even finished drawing your weapon. It’s just a good thing it wasn’t one of his siblings on this quest instead of him. The rest of them are not only 10 times as quick to anger, but are also a lot more vicious and deadly.

Faramir: is that so?

Silvan: yeah, don’t get me wrong, legolas is definitely strong even for most elves, but his family’s just straight up made up of monsters, and he is the weaker one. Not weak, just the weakest of that family.

#lord of the rings #silmarillion #lotr #the hobbit #lotr elves #thranduil #legolas #mirkwood #greenwood the great #silvans #trans thranduil #shamelessly pushing my ‘miriel and thranduil are twins agenda’ #legolas lore #legolas is a very upbeat elf bc he refuses to let sauron dictate his life any more than he has to #this in turn confuses many elves bc they’d think elves were supposed to be solomn #one thing the silvans prioritize is not letting themselves fossilize and reminding themselves to live #legolas is a chill laidback elf who hasn’t been pissed off in over a century #so noone knows exactly how pissed he can get when pushed #not wven aragorn #legolas isn’t *serene calm* he’s *life’s fucking shit so might as well appreciate what you can get* #i need people to understand that legolas wasn’t that attached to the walkers at first #that it came later #and that at first legolas absolutely would have sacrificed them for the goal in a heartbeat #no one suspects him of this though because he acts like a bit of a ditz

[avatarobi]

When Thorin gave Bilbo the Mithril chainmail shirt, he said it was made for an Elven prince.

The only Elven prince that was born in any of the 4 Elven realms since the founding of Erebor is Legolas.

Frodo is wearing Legolas's baby clothes in LOTR.

#lotr memes #LOTR #lord of the rings #tolkien #bilbo and frodo #frodo #lotr frodo #legolas #legolas lotr #jrr tolkien #j rr tolkien #lord of the rings trilogy #lotr fellowship #fellowship of the ring #lore #lotr trilogy

[justpostsyeet]

You know according to tolkien's legend, the accounts of middle earth came to the author via Hobbits and the manuscripts left behind.

In the eyes of Hobbits elves were is super kind dudes who gave them food and shelter but in context it was only because Bilbo was with Gandalf on a fucking journey to reclaim Erebor and the rest of hobbits were in the main plan to kill literal Satan.

And about the manuscript thing, the relics only survive when they're kept in best condition. Elves were the superior species of middle earth with advance technology so,their version of history could be best preserved.

I'm not saying that all elves where bad or something, What I'm saying is what if the middle earth history has an authorship bias. There are so many instances in which flawed deeds of elves are hidden in flowery language such as Eöl took (unwilling)Aredhel as his wife. How at many instance which you read about Galadriel, in subtext she seems like a power hungry absolutist but her causes are always shown as one of a noble lady fighting for a great cause. Only flawed elves are shown in Silmarillion.

So, what if elves were flawed like the second born and other creatures of Middle earth but they always appeared noble and great due to authorship bias.

And by authorship bias,I don't mean authorship bias by tolkien but if we go according to the myth of middle earth by tolkien,then it's the authorship bias of whoever write the said history of middle earth which tolkien later found and translated. So, it's not Tolkien fault because he's translating what he's given but the fault lies in the hands of whoever wrote the original verses.

Why I'm rambling all these? It's because we were studying about authorship bias and bending of actual events while writing the history. It made of think about the history of middle earth.

#thoughts #the lord of the rings #tolkien lore #tolkien #lord of the rings #the hobbit #hobbit #silmarillion #authors #authorship bias #elrond #galadriel #glorfindel #kili #fili #thorin #thorin oakenshield #legolas #aragorn #merry #pippin #frodo #sam #boromir #faramir #durin #celeborn #celebrimbor #lotr #arwen

[deer-with-a-stick]

The more time I spend explaining Tolkien lore to my brother the more I realize that Tolkien was just batshit insane

#yes the world is flat and a globe at the same time #and yes if you go off the edge you fall into the void with Satan 1.0 (assuming the Straight Road doesn't just railroad you) #he calls Valinor “The place under some trees where everyone smokes weed” and honestly I wish they would do that instead #bilbo and frodo bring weed to valinor quick #i tried to explain the miriel-finwe situation and he's so confused #“so they died and they were all sad even though they didn't have to stay dead?? but she couldn't come back because he remarried??” #“but then he dies and says 'yo ill stay dead instead' and she's find now??” #does the big God just keep making elf and human souls or do they just. appear #i told him about Gil-Galad Son of Plothole #he is quickly realizing that yes #the valar are a bit incompetent #its fine #elrond's dad is a star his mom is a bird and his great great grandma is an angel #my sister gave up two seconds in despite sparking this by asking me about elf lore #apparently she actually just wants to know about legolas but not legolas' father because of the hobbit movies #let me rant about feanorian politics it'll be interesting i promise #shut up about your elf backflips you wanna hear about nirnaeth arnoediad and the kinslayings #tolkien #lotr #lord of the rings #silmarillion #the silm #is this a shitpost? idk #he's batshit insane but the world is great i love it #we still don't know where hobbits come from #they appeared one day #like potatoes #i had one tidbit of legolas lore and that was #the guy showed up several years late in a homemade boat with a dwarf #incomprehensible screaming

[stormxpadme]

Remember when

and Éowyn being like

#lord of the rings #and all tolkien lore #dysfunctional elves ftw #i has much funny #aralas #aragorn #legolas #has this been done or

[rohirric-hunter]

"Evil deeds are not undone by the destruction of those who wrought them," I mean the temple of Sauron in Umbar did very much explode when the Ring was destroyed. That's a very significant thing that happened. In fact we are standing in its shadow looking at scattered bits of it right now. I guess they don't come out quite this far but we can very much see its super exploded remains from here.

#lotro #spoilers of umbar #i am so exploring that place #unrelated but kind of wild how much information we have about the forsaken reaver #much more so than any of the other nazgul #like on top of the fact that unlike the others he apparently still has some kind of attachment to his life before being a nazgul #like i dont get the impression from any of the rest of them that they care or in some cases even know #and sauron certainly didnt want them to if dor amarths lost lore is anything to go by #but legolas talks about how he resented elendils tower thats near umbar which is interesting #he predates elendil and by extension the tower #he must have been insufferable when he heard elendil was building a tower there #just insufferable

[bonniebird]

Imagine being Legolas in the mines after Frodo got stabbed and he opens up his shirt to reveal he’s been wearing your freaking baby clothes this whole time.

#the mithril shirt belonging to an infant elf and Legolas being the only one that fits the timeline is peak Tolkien lore #I bet he was loosing his mind #funniest legolas frodo interaction ever and we didn't even see legolas react

[astrxealis]

me rn having the biggest hots for leon kennedy and astarion sorry LMFAOOO <3

#⋯ ꒰ა starry thoughts ໒꒱ *·˚ #^___^ me smiling innocently #bg3 is on the MIND !!! i dearly want it so badly. turns out my dad played 1/2 (not sure which) a looong time ago #but he never got too far i think bcs he's busy... :P but hey i love him. wow. it's really cool he knows it too (ofc he does lmfao) #me and him (handshake emoji) also never getting far in da origins yet bcs we have it on xbox bcs of him getting it a long time ago #but there's that bug in the mage tower... :( funny we both went thru it LMFAO <//3 anyway i got it on steam so i've been playing #again but not recently anymore since 1. ffxiv took over my life last days of summer again 2. summer is over back school so rip #anyway can u tell i love fantasy :)) da and bg babeyyy !!! my type is going to make you guys cry i'm so obvious #zevran... fenris... astarion... i have a thing for ppl w blond/white hair :P idk my fav in inquisition yet and idk anything abt bg1&2 yet #but Yeah. GHBSHJGBSHJG..... da origins is kinda funny (lack of better word) to me btw bcs i like all four main romance options #but it's hard to explain (i have a story behind stuff i want to share but it's tiring and annoying of me /hj !!!!!) #anyway i like blond elves if it wasn't obvious. yes i also like link and zelda from loz. yes i like legolas. yes i like #...anyway! so where does re fit in this? uh. u see i'm a coward actually i'm too scared to play re LMFAOOO #BTU I ADORE THE LORE and the characters and the game franchise and shit ^_^ just. i shld really watch it sometime #instead of reading wikis all the time and just soaking up all the knowledge but i'm. a Coward. okay #i can't even play bloodborne despite how nerdy i am over it... it's so scary to poor little me... i'm a coward (it's the harsh truth)..... #anwyay i'll conquer my fears one day but that day is NOT SOON !!! i wna get into re properly tho aside from just being a nerd #so i'm too scared to play but i'll watch playthroughs sometime (and admire leon) <3 yeah. another blond. i know. shut up. #is this my life rn am i just infatuated w blonds and white haired guys. it's gna be hell if i continue nier replicant rn too huh #uh. goodnight!

[ddarker-dreams]

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i've tried so hard to break the habit, but i have a big sweet tooth 😭 i try to eat relatively healthy but a girl needs her special little treats to get through this life. spinach can only do so much for me. my favorite desserts are ice cream (chocolate peanut butter or chocolate mint chip), tiramisu, and crème brûlée. 🙏

#this emoji made me go legolas ?? ??? #apparently it's just an elf emoji though GERHJNE' #lock lore #answered #Anonymous

[fluentisonus]

cannot overstate how funny it is that one of the top lotr ships on ao3 is between a guy that has four lines in the whole text and a guy he never even speaks to directly

#it's literally the fourth most popular pairing after frodo/sam legolas/gimli aragorn/arwen alkdhfkjashfkjsaf #this is not a criticism at all btw. good for the people that ship it I think it's fascinating #the way decades of fan collaboration can invent character & relationship lore wholecloth like that to the point it's that widespread. huh #thoughts

[lunylune]

Summary:

Wonders and miracles were not something the mountain had seen in a while. You see, miracles were different from terror. Poisoned magic was still magic, but it did not have the same feel. The dragon was not poison, but the magic it brought with it was.

Come and learn the stories of Erebor's magic, for it has plenty left to share.

#lord of the rings #lotr #legolas greenleaf #legolas #gimli son of gloin #gimli #legolas x gimli #gigolas #more lore #more fairy tales #thumbelina has joined the party! #i am so tired #fanfic in progress #fanfiction #ao3 #fanfic #author needs sleep

[silvantransthranduiltrash]

Me: *jerks awake at 3am in bed* what if I seperate the Noldor/vanyar/teleri/sindar elves from the silvan and avari elves by referring to the Ainur touched elves (aka the Noldor/vanyar/teleri/sindar) as “light elves”, and the elves who refused the ruling of the Ainur (aka the silvans and avari) are called “dark elves”?

This could further be compounded by the “light elves” preferring to work and function during the day, while the “dark elves” prefer the night!

And, and, and by separating the two groups into “light” and “dark” elves, in-text it would perfectly encapsulate not only the distinction between the two opposite perspectives of the 2 groups, but also the way the Ainur touched elves view themselves as superior because they had direct contact with the Ainur by referring to themselves as “light” elves (but now in reference to being better than dark elves, not just as a description)!

#lord of the rings #lotr #silmarillion #the hobbit #lotr elves #mirkwood #silvans #greenwood the great #avari #noldor #vanya #teleri #sindar #avari and silvans are referred to as ‘dark elves’ bc they refuse the light of valinor and the Ainur #the noldor/vanyar/teleri/sindar elves are referred to as‘light elves’ bc they accepted the Ainur #lotr elves lore I just made up bc cannon is a sandbox #legolas

[tenth-sentence]

When all the Company had crossed, they sat and rested and ate a little food; and Legolas told them tales of Lothlórien that the Elves of Mirkwood still kept in their hearts, of sunlight and starlight upon the meadows by the Great River before the world was grey.

"The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" - J.R.R. Tolkien

#book quote #lotr #lord of the rings #jrr tolkien #tfotr #the fellowship of the ring #the company of the ring #legolas #elves #lothlorien #mirkwood #smoko #rest stop #sunlight #starlight #meadows #great river #lore

[justpostsyeet]

Continuing with my winners write the history and authorship bias

It's okay for Melian to enchant Thingol but when Eöl does it with Aredhel it's wrong. Noldors are always right and noble while outsiders are uncouth and primitive, savages who rapes and deceives people?

I have a full blown analysis(?) over it and I'll expand upon this later.

#authorship bias #authors #getting a lot of thoughts these days #and a lot of it is about lotr and history of middle earth #the lord of the rings #lord of the rings #the hobbit #hobbit #silmarillion #tolkien lore #melian #thingol #eol #Aredhel #elrond #lord elrond #legolas #kili #fili #rivendell elves #mirkwood elves #lothlorien #lothlorien elves #silvan #avari #noldor #vanyar #sindar

[deer-with-a-stick]

Real time footage of me trying once again for the thousandth time to explain First Age Beleriand elf drama to my sister who only pays attention to the films when Legolas is doing backflips and claims the story is boring otherwise

#she keeps asking me about lore and then just not paying attention #I tried yesterday and I’m trying again #girl PAY ATTENTION #tolkien #legolas #lotr #the silmarillion

[stormxpadme]

You were the light and the rock in our lives until ada took his last breath, but we were always only a chapter in yours.

- When we stand together (Tales Untold #15)

The last chapter of my Tales Untold series is now online, finishing with 15 parts and ~ 850,000 words, in Fo.A. 120, with the good-bye from Aragorn, and Legolas and his family traveling to Aman.

I got long tired of marketing since people have been widely ignoring this from the start, but hey, at least I can say it’s finished now. Cheers!

Artwork no. 1: @citrusro​

Artwork no. 2: @rymu-art​

Artwork no. 3: @felixwhetsel

#lord of the rings #and all tolkien lore #dysfunctional elves ftw #legolas #aragorn #lotr #the lord of the rings #fanfiction #stormys fanfics