#&& legolas

[allyanastark97]

I know its an old joke but it really does crack me up to think Frodo might not know Legolas's name, especially in the most obvious scene at Frodo's bed after waking up and he addresses literally everyone by name except Legolas, like come on you're telling me you couldn't have gotten Elijah to do another take so he could say that beautiful Elf's name lmao

[vlovann]

Love skrunkly Gimli at the bottom

The three of them give me so much camping vibe, and my head canon is to imagine Gimli and Aragorn trying to explain games to Legolas, but he is the worst at it.

[samepictureoflegolas]

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[cowpokezuko]

Arwen and her three weed smoking girlfriends.

Someone else has probably done this, but whatevs

[the-noir-symphony]

The real version of this scene 🤷‍♀️

Poor Gimli

[all-the-hyper-fixations]

ooooooh I love this concept

Headcannon:

Tolkien describes many of the elves in LOTR as ‘beautiful and perilous’ or some other combination to the same effect. What if Elves created uncanny valley effects towards the other races of Middle-earth?

The elves keep a little too still.

They blink, but hardly enough to be ‘normal’.

Their skin is a little too perfect.

Elves’ grace feels more predatory.

They can be completely silent.

In conclusion, give me more unsettling Tolkien elves. Please, fanfic writers I beg you.

[winwin17]

I want to talk about Legolas and singing. (Hang in there, because it starts out a little silly but turns meaningful.)

How many times do you think he just broke off into song during the Fellowship's quest? Well, one time he's like, "Let me sing you this song about Nimrodel!" He also sings to himself in the middle of the night when he's on watch. When the Three Hunters reunited with Merry and Pippin, they relax and smoke their pipes - except for Legolas, who lounges next to them, looking at the sky and singing softly to himself.

He sings to the horse of Rohan when it freaks out about the Paths of the Dead. He stops in the middle of recounting a story to the Hobbits, breaking off to sing a song about the lands they passed through, which feature in the account he's telling. When he goes to see Merry and Pippin in Minas Tirith, people watch curiously, not only because it was odd to see an Elf and Dwarf at ease with one another, but also "Legolas was fair of face beyond the measure of Men, and he sang an elven-song in a clear voice as he walked in the morning...." And then later he mentions that he hopes to bring some of his people to the region - but he gets distracted thinking about the river, which leads to the sea, and he wanders off singing to himself of the sea.

We know singing is important to all Elves, but it seems to me that Legolas randomly sings more than maybe the average Elf does. Maybe it's just because we get to see so much of him compared to some of the other Elves - but either way, I like to think this is his way of keeping his hope up.

Legolas is from Mirkwood, and not only that, he's a prince. He possibly remembers when his home was still called Greenwood, before the shadow of Sauron came over it. Being that Mirkwood was one of the last Elven realms preserved in Middle Earth, it must have grieved and angered the inhabitants to watch this evil befall. Years were spent trying to fight back the Shadow over Mirkwood. It stands to reason that Legolas had a significant role in that. No doubt he took this very personally, trying to defend and preserve his people and their beautiful realm. At times it seemed that the Shadow was driven back, only to return again. Among the Wise, it was highly suspected that Sauron would make another comeback and the age of the Elves in Middle Earth would be over.

And yet Legolas keeps singing. He sings folk songs from his people, he sings of beautiful lands far and wide, of ancient heroes who gained renown fighting the enemy. Maybe he even made his own songs, too. And in the face of the darkness, when it seemed the Shadow would swallow everything up, the only thing he could do to keep his courage was to keep singing. I'd like to think that's part of why he's developed the habit of just singing to himself sometimes. That, and the fact that he just likes to sing and express himself in song, and he possesses a buoyant spirit. But where did that come from? Is it just a personality trait, or something more, something fine-tuned in the Shadows of Mirkwood in defiance of Sauron?

When Legolas sings, it comes from a hard-bought hope cultivated by years of trial. Greenwood may become Mirkwood, but the Greenleaf is still green, and he's not about to let that change, though it takes him to a battle against all odds at the Black Gate itself. He, too, sings to remind himself that the Shadow is only a passing thing. It cannot vanquish the joy and hope and wonder at the beautiful things of the world that overflows at random moments. And that's why we love him, silly moments and all.

[creepyclothdoll]

[fretbored34]

That’s not the right elf, Chat. Also, wtf Domino’s?

[silvantransthranduiltrash]

Legolas: never thought we’d be in this position.

Luthien: maybe not, but you gotta admit i make a sexy grandma!

[mysarcasticgreencrayon]

🤣

Legolas and Gimli meeting Faramir for the first time: My how you‘ve grown!

Faramir:….what the….

Faramir: Boromir! Did you show people baby pictures of me again?

Boromir: I may have shown them the one or other odd one I had on my phone …

Faramir (dread in his voice): How many baby pictures of me do you have on your phone????

Boromir: Remember when I broke my leg badly two years ago?

Faramir: Yes?

Boromir: I used the time to digitise mum‘s old photo albums…

Faramir: …oh no.

Boromir: … and when uncle Imrahil saw what I was doing he asked me if I also wanted the pics he took…

Faramir: Good grief.

Boromir: And then Ioreth mentioned she snapped a few pics of the two of us growing up- mainly because I was so cute you know…

Faramir: Give me strength .

Boromir: Oh and Gandalf too is a surprisingly good photographer.

Faramir ( muttering): I survived the war for this???

Boromir: So yeah I digitised those and put them on my phone. The one where you fell asleep in the spaghetti as toddler is my background, so adorable!

Faramir: Please swear you will never show Eowyn any of those!

Eowyn ( calling from next room) : What do you think is my phone background?

Aragorn: And mine!

[bellamythevampirewriter]

if anyone could comment random hcs of LotR/the Hobbit characters bc i just had THE WORST DAY EVER

thanks :3

[ire1ia]

[samepictureoflegolas]

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[teitho]

Signal boost! Submit by April 30!

Our prompt for March/April is Mothers!

Exploring the idea of mothers in Tolkien lets us go behind the scenes. We have quite a few mothers directly in the narrative, primarily in the Silmarillion—where we see Miriel, Nerdanel, Morwen, Idril, Aredhel, Luthien, Elwing, and even have mentions of Anaire and Earwen.

In The Lord of the Rings we read of Galadriel being Celebrian’s mother and Arwen’s grandmother. Aragorn’s mother Gilraen, Faramir and Boromir’s mother Finduilas, and Rosie Cotton—Sam’s wife—are all mentioned in the narrative.

The Hobbit gives us a memory of Belladonna Took, Bilbo’s mother, and mentions of Thorin’s sister Dis—the mother of Fili and Kili.

The stories of any of these characters would make for fascinating fic! Or art!

There are many who remain unmentioned and unnamed—Legolas’s mother, Gimli’s, the mothers of generations of Dunedain, of Gondorians, of the Rohirrim, of the Shire. And consider Ungoliant, mother of Shelob!

And mothers among the ranks of orcs.

We are excited to see where this prompt takes you and which character gives you inspiration!

Please submit your fic or art by April 30 to teitho.contest@gmail.com