#orlando bloom as legolas

[winwin17]

Don't mind me, I'm just here to ramble about the frequent misinterpretation of Legolas.

In a lot of fan content, I tend to see him get portrayed as a feminine, scatterbrained diva or something along that line. He's depicted as girly and overly dramatic. It's not like I haven't been entertained by the memes about Legolas and his hair products or stuff like that, but hear me out - just because he's pretty doesn't mean he's girly or shallow (equating those two things is another separate issue altogether).

The thing is, even though he's pretty and has perfect hair, he's actually quite masculine, and his actor even has quite classically masculine features (face and physique). What's more, Legolas is an elf. Elves don't need beauty products, and I doubt most of them would care much for them anyway. They're naturally like the most beautiful creatures. Both the dudes and the ladies have long hair, so in that context, that feature doesn't necessarily suggest girlishness to me. Anyway, this is basically to say that I don't care for the self-absorbed, appearance-focused, girly diva interpretation of Legolas I see in fan content. There's much more to him than that.

The movies unfortunately gave Legolas his reputation as a Captain Obvious, which does him a disservice in bringing out this depiction of Legolas as a ditsy, dumb guy with an empty head. (It probably wasn't the intention, but it's a byproduct nonetheless.) Besides being portrayed as a Captain Obvious, another disservice done to him by the movies is the emphasis on Legolas as a cool action guy, superhero level, and maybe even invincible. But book Legolas is actually more human(?). That is to say, he gets scared and downhearted and cries just like all the rest of the Fellowship. While it's true that even in the books he does tend to maintain a more optimistic, lighthearted disposition than the others, he's still imperfect. He's still a person with hopes and fears and dreams and feelings, and he's not beyond forgetting the words to songs. ;p Yes, he cracks jokes, but he also does "not wish to go to Moria," and he grumbles when he has to be blindfolded in Lorien. Pretty relatable on many levels.

None of this is meant to be a book purist's rude degradation of movie Legolas, but just to lament the way I personally feel he is so misinterpreted and misrepresented. Legolas isn't shallow or one-dimensional. He's brave, he's strong, he's caring, and he's open-minded enough to take risks and make connections that are unconventional. He's respectful to his leaders, he's passionate about saving the world, destroying the Ring, and rescuing Merry and Pippin. He's helpful and committed to the Fellowship even though he doesn't have to be. He's compassionate towards people he doesn't have to care about.

So while we have characters like Boromir who are so frequently misunderstood and misrepresented, let's have some justice for Legolas, too.

#my rants #justice for legolas #lotr #lord of the rings #misinterpretation of legolas #legolas character analysis #lotr fandom #legolas #lotr legolas #tolkien #tolkien stuff #lotr boromir #lotr elves #orlando bloom as legolas

[vancruejovi]

Legolas 🏹

#legolas #legolas greenleaf #jrr tolkien #lord of the rings #lotr #orlando bloom

[k-wame]

JACOB ELORDI · Interviewed by Lynn Hirschberg for 🎭 W Magazine · 24 Feb. 2021

#orlando bloom ouchea quietly sexually awakening an entire generation of bisexuals --a king #jacob elordi #lotr #lord of the rings #legolas #aragorn #queer #lgbt #bisexual #bisexuality #saltburn #saltburn 2023 #orlando bloom #viggo mortensen #w magazine #interview gifs #beautiful men

[letthefairyinyoufly]

What about side by side with a friend?

#The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King #LOTR #the lord of the rings #legolas greenleaf #gimli son of gloin #lotredit #tolkienedit #filmedit #dailyflicks #oneringnet #tolkiensource #fyeahmovies #cinemapix #catronac7 #lotr1 #my gifs* #John Rhys-Davies #orlando bloom #I still don't know how to color HDR

[tenaciousgeckos]

Shakespeare: So, in Macbeth, the forest doesn't actually move, it's just an army holding branches

C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien: And we took that personally

#shakespeare #funny #macbeth #literature #narnia #peter pevensie #susan pevensie #prince caspian #dawn treader #ben barnes #lord of the rings #ents #aragorn #legolas #fandoms #bilbo baggins #hobbit #orlando bloom #lion witch wardrobe #christian #books #movies #series #book rec

[autistook]

Bernard Hill on Viggo pranking him, Cast Commentary, The Two Towers

#orlando bloom cracking up behind him kills me #lotr bts* #lotr cast #cast commentary #lotr #lord of the rings #the lord of the rings #ttt #the two towers #viggo mortensen #theoden king #aragorn #legolas #bernard hill #tolkien #lotr gif #lotr gifs #lotr edit #tolkien edit #tolkien gifs #jrrt #middle-earth

[inthiskingdomwewillendure]

The Two Towers in 4k

#lotr #aragorn #legolas #lord of the rings #lotredit #elves #strider #viggo mortensen #orlando bloom #4k #ttt #two towers #the two towers #leggy is worried

[thranduilswifesblog]

Thranduil : "I'm just curious, do you think with our advanced healing, we could actually drink bleach?"

Celeborn : ....

Legolas : ...

Glorfindel : "well... There's only one way to find-"

Elrond, spraying them all with water : "ABSOLUTELY NOT!"

#the hobbit #the lord of the rings #rings of power #incorrect tolkien quotes #incorrect lord of the rings quotes #elrond #incorrect silmarillion quotes #hugoweaving #tolkien #robert aramayo #incorrect hobbit quotes #incorrect rings of power #glorfindel #thranduil #lee pace #legolas #celeborn #orlando bloom

[leepacesource]

Orlando Bloom as Legolas & Lee Pace as Thranduil in  ⤷ The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)

#the hobbit #thehobbitedit #hobbitedit #tlotrgifs #lotredit #tolkienedit #tolkiensource #leepaceedit #orlando bloom #lee pace #Thranduil #legolas #by soph #gifs #the desolation of smaug #moviegifs #filmedit #filmgifs #chewieblog #userbbelcher #cinemapix

[baleful-blurbs]

had a bout of motivation but only for tolkien characters. 😶

#tlotr #tlotr art #lord of the rings #lord of the rings fanart #aragorn #legolas #artists on tumblr #art #illustration #realism #thandruil #lee pace #orlando bloom #viggo mortensen #the hobbit #the hobbit fanart #tolkien #sketch #colored pencils

[80sfeel]

me mass reporting and blocking bots like

#legolas #lord of the rings #orlando bloom #tumblr bots #fucking bots #the bots are back #stop the bots #jesus christ #can someone at tumblr hq PLEASE DO SOMETHING BC MY NOTIFICATIONS ARE CLOGGED WITH BOTS

[alannacouture]

I’m not a huge fan of the ridiculously long Hobbit movies, but Lee Pace is the most precious person in the world

#the hobbit #the hobbit movies #the hobbit cast #the hobbit memes #lee pace #thranduil #orlando bloom #legolas #jrr tolkien #tolkien elves #lord of the rings #lord of the rings movies #lord of the rings cast #lotr #lotr cast #alannacouture

[rosettyller]

legolas + death

#lotr #the lord of the rings #tolkienedit #lotredit #legolas #legolasedit #orlando bloom #thcrin #drinkcrywrite #oneringnet #tolkiensource #sourcetolkien #filmedit #userisaiah #southfarthing #usersansa #adaptationsdaily #fantasysource #fantasyedit #late.gif

[teenagecowboyrunaway]

People if Tumblr

It's unlikely this will reach many people so please vote, I'm conducting a little experiment, does gender correlate to attraction? Anyslay, the question is do you find Orlando Bloom more attractive as Legolas or Will Turner (also lesbians and straight men please answer this)

Photos:

:)

#lotr #potc #lord of the rings #pirates of the caribbean #orlando bloom #legolas #will turner

[whiteladyofithilien]

Okay but Lee 100% had it in him to play picnicking frolicsome Elvenking of the Hobbit books while also being brooding emotionally complex Thranduil of the films and I just generally feel robbed of giggly drunk Thranduil being a thing in the films

#tolkien #jrr tolkien #thranduil #the elvenking #lee pace #the hobbit #hobbit #hobbit trilogy #peter jackson #lotr #lord of the rings #my sexy emotionally repressed elf lord #Mirkwood #Smirkwood #legolas #legolas greenleaf #orlando bloom #elves of Mirkwood #grey elves #sindarin

[owenhcrper]

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

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