#legolas of gondolin

[glorf1ndel]

So you wanna rant about Tolkien blorbos, eh? Absolute mood, how about Legolas of Gondolin for one that doesn't get talked about as much?

This Legolas really doesn’t get talked about much! I love that he helps the Gondolindrim escape Morgoth’s attack. He must have seen Glorfindel’s duel with the Balrog (yes, I will take any excuse to mention Glorfindel). And he survives the Fall of Gondolin! Good for Legolas. :’)

[lanthanum12]

Random AU idea

So a bunch of characters in Tolkien's Legendarium share names,

I think it would be quite fun if everyone met their name matches and had a picnic or something with them!

Denethor I meets Denethor II meets Denethor son of Lenwe

Tar-Miriel meets Miriel Firiel Þerinde

Legolas Greenleaf meets Legolas of Gondolin

Lily Baggins meets Lily Brown meets my oc Lily

Finduilas of Dol Amroth meets Finduilas Faelivrin

Bill the Pony meets William "Bill" the troll

Durin I meets Durin II meets Durin III meets Durin IV meets Durin V meets Durin VI meets Durin VII meets Durin's Bane

Frodo Gardner meets Frodo Baggins :')

[arofili]

@gondolinweek day five | the house of the tree

There were those of the Tree, and they were a great house, and their raiment was green. They fought with iron-studded clubs or with slings, and their lord Galdor was held the most valiant of all the Gondothlim save Turgon alone.

[...] Galdor and a band of men spear-armed went ahead, and Legolas was with them, whose eyes were like cats’ for the dark, yet could they see further.

[thelordofgifs]

Obscure Tolkien Blorbo: Round 1

Gelmir Guilinion vs Legolas of Gondolin

Gelmir Guilinion:

A Lord of Nargothrond who was captured in the Dagor Bragollach. His brutal execution within view of his brother Gwindor was what incited the Nirnaeth Arnoediad.

two-line blorbo my beloved <3 listen idk anything abt him basically at all but i WISH i did bc like. him being the catalyst for the nirnaeth… who else is doing it like him? nobody, and thank god for that, bc he very much did get tortured & then killed but i appreciate the tragedy of it all & i think more ppl should love him the way i do

Legolas of Gondolin:

An Elf of Gondolin who led the escapees to safety because of his keen sight.

Round 1 masterpost

[celebregol]

it’s just that I think it’s very interesting that Legolas of Gondolin is described solely based on his night-vision. So far, three instances of him in The Fall of Gondolin and it’s all about the fact that he can see so well in the dark, more so than any other elf here. Why does he have this special trait? Especially since one description has him with “cat” like eyes (cats in general possibly having a more villainous connotation cause Telvido) and another elf notable for something relating to his eyesight is Maeglin.

[silvantransthranduiltrash]

In honor of the “legolas is old af boat” and the “there was a legolas in gondolin”

Legolas, visiting the twins: making my way down town, walking fast

Glorfindel, seeing legolas for the first time in imlardis: legolas?!?

Legolas: walking faster-

Glorfindel: wtf, i last saw you in gondolin, what happened???

Legolas: fucking sprinting

[sesamenom]

so in the reverse gondolin au i'm debating between having oropher & thranduil (idea courtesy of @lycheesodas) or galadriel & celeborn bring elwing to gondolin (bc i need earendil & elwing to meet in gondolin for Plot)

i'm currently leaning a bit more towards galadriel & celeborn, but here's some speculation to if legolas was born in reverse gondolin!

(also sorry for how long it took me to post this my internet was super choppy for some reason)

[valardynasty]

Oropher Dynasty

*Arthanïs et Evranï, histoire originale inventée.

OROPHER; Né durant les années des arbres, il fut l'un des Iathrim de la cour de Thingol et Melian. Il passa sa jeunesse à Doriath où il épousa Arthanïs, la mère de Thranduil. En 750 du second âge, il devient le roi du royaume des bois, le grand royaume des elfes sylvain de la forêt noir. Il perdit la vie durant la guerre de la dernière Alliance contre Sauron.

ARTHANÏS; Née durant les années des arbres, elle était l'une des dames de compagnie de la reine Maïa Melian à Doriath. Elle était connue pour ses savoirs en magie que lui avait transmis Melian. Elle épousa Oropher et eut une fils Thranduil. Elle perdit la vie pendant le saccage de Menegroth. Homonyme de Galadriel.

THRANDUIL; Né au cours du premier âge à Doriath, il est le fils d'Oropher et Arthanïs. Après la mort de son père, il devient roi du royaume des bois aux côtés de son épouse Evranï, avec qui il aura un fils Legolas. Son caractère se noircit au décès d'Evranï, il n'a d'ailleurs jamais vraiment surmonté sa perte.

EVRANÏ; Née peu de temps avant la chute de Gondolin, elle fait partie des rares survivants à s'être exilés aux bouches du Sirion. Elle abandonna les exilés et prit la route vers Doriath, peu avant sa chute. Elle y rencontra Thranduil qu'elle épousa. Elle devient à ses côtés, reine du royaume des bois et eut un fils, Legolas. Guerrière notable, elle perd la vie pendant une bataille à Gundabad.

LEGOLAS; Né durant le Second Âge, il est le fils de Thranduil et Evranï, prince du Royaume des bois. Il passe sa jeunesse avec Thranduil, attristé dès le plus jeune âge par la mort de sa mère, Evranï. Vêtu de vert et de marrons, il est un guerrier expert au maniement de l'arc, connu pour ses exploits durant la quête de l'anneau. A la fin de sa vie, il part pour Valinor en emmenant Gimli avec lui.

My OC x Création par Intelligence Artificielle.

[jeandejard3n]

The Silmarillion | Ambient Music

[spideogbeag]

Legolas of Gondolin is really just LOTR Legolas who somehow time travelled

Why? Idk, to prove he can maybe 🤷

That is all

[sesamenom]

between Galdor (of the Tree), Galdor (son of Hador), and Galdor (of the Havens), it must be concluded that galdor is like arda's equivalent of Bob

(First Age)

[southaway]

@sindarweek Day Seven: Oropher, Thranduil, and Legolas

Couldn't finish Sindar Week without including the Greenwood fam! I don't know the timeline well enough to know if this is just headcanon or plausible, but I like the idea that Oropher got to meet his grandson before he died.

I think Oropher is one of those characters that gets treated a way in fandom. Hell, back in the day so did Thranduil, though, that mostly changed after the Hobbit movies came out.

Anyway, here they are having a nice family moment.

I had a lot of fun exploring the Sindar, I want to revisit these characters more in the future and there are plenty of Sindar elves I didn't get to this week

I'm most of the way the way through art I'd like to post for Imladris Week, and I'm about halfway through a Lords of Gondolin series, so we'll see how long my creativity holds out.

[peasant-player]

Lost Tales and found Possibilities

Or

Legolas of Gondolin meeting Noldor Gimli the Gnome in his shop~

This came from @laisrinel and I liked the idea of a noldor gimli. So I kinda run with that.

I still stand on my opinion that feanor and his noldors would have got along great with the dwarves and it was kinda rude that none of the dwarves had a chance to go with the elve to valinor with orome. Such missed opportunities of fun smithing shenanigans.

I say that gimli looks really good and he was the only reason I finished this drawing.

It was cursed.

That was the third try!

I ripped one yesterday and then I spilled my soup everywhere just to find out ,after I made the whole line art again, that the new paper I use has this fun water color effect -that I did not wanted.

I made it work though for gimli. ❤️

Don't look at legolas. I'll draw him in the future again as a apology!

Btw I used glorfindels clothes for legolas and some maedhros clothes for gimli!

[maedhrosdefender]

no one ever talks about the wild ass experience that is reading ALL of great tales immediately after silm and then trying to be a functioning member of this fandom. like i don’t know what canon is anymore i don’t know what’s headcanon what’s fanon what’s earlier draft what’s silm canon and what’s something christopher tolkien said in his unfinished tales footnotes. was daeron luthien’s brother or in love w her?? melko or melkor, maidros or maedhros?? tevildo canon?? legolas of gondolin?? idek anymore bro.

[erendur]

Whose mithril shirt are Bilbo/Frodo wearing ?

We are told in The Hobbit that it was made for an "elf-prince", of which we also know there aren't that many, so that leaves (explanations below the poll) :

Eärendil : this one is kind of my favourite option, given that we are told in The Fall of Gondolin that his parents had a mail-shirt made for him. They aren't strapped for cash so could easily have splashed on a mithril shirt, especially since Idril was full of foreboding about the fall of the city and Tuor was literally told by a Vala that the city was going to fall. So this would have been money well invested. They could have had it made in-house. How did it end up in Smaug's hoard ? I see several options there : a) in the confusion of the attack, which happened during a festival, there was no time to go back home and put the shirt on, instead Eärendil was sent straight to the escape tunnel, the shirt was later on stolen during the plunder of the city and somehow made its way to Erebor ; b) much more unlikely, the shirt was cast away and abandoned on the long march fleeing Gondolin ; c) the shirt, given its value, was exchanged once in Sirion against supplies (Eärendil had outgrown it), maybe directly with dwarves, and made its way to Erebor ; d) the shirt was kept in Sirion for Eärendil's descendants as a family heirloom but plundered and bartered after the massacre there.

2. Elrond/Elros : two options there : two shirts were ordered for them by their parents and either were never delivered because of massacre, or were delivered but did not have time to be put on in confusion of massacre, and were latter plundered (or their parents chose their favourite child and decided he would be the one with the shirt). Extremely unlikely but the shirt could have been ordered by M&M for their favourite peredhel (Elrond. They were low on cash and ordered just the one shirt for Elrond), but they were overtaken by Silmaril lust before the goods could be delivered.

3. Dior : another pair of not-strapped-for-cash parents, they could have had one made ? Maybe ? Even though when Dior was a child they were living in their own little earthly paradise and being very much left alone ? So maybe Dior had actually a series of them (for different ages) and maybe they all ended up in hoards ? Or it was later on taken to Menegroth, of which more below.

4. Elured/Elurin : Dior took the throne minus The Girdle, he was not strapped for cash, so it would have made sense to have some protective equipment made for his sons. Once again, these could have been left unworn in the confusion of the sudden attack and later on plundered /just one shirt made for the favourite child or two shirts made but one ended up lost, melted for mithrill, cut up into pieces, etc.

5. Elrohir/Elladan : highly unlikely but they are elven princes so I included them. The shirt(s) could have been ordered by Elrond but then, bam !, dragon happening and so on. Elrond is way too classy to point out to Bilbo that the shirt he is wearing was actually ordered (and paid for) by him.

6. Gil-Galad : depending on what age/parentage you imagine him to be. He is an Elven prince (maybe). He is associated with the colour silver. He had to flee to Cirdan. He could have left his shirt behind.

7. Maeglin : not technically a prince, but his father bowed to no one, had dwarven connections and a serious penchant for violence. Could have had a shirt made for his son before he considered trying to kill him, and the shirt could have been plundered from Eöl's place after his death.

8. A gift from Galadriel for a potential Finrod baby : This comes from the fact that a known hoard and source of plunder is Nargothrond. Galadriel seemed to have had a bad case of "Auntie fever" in the Silm, and badgers Finrod to marry and have kids (he says no because he has a stupid oath of his own to make instead). But she could have tried to tempt him further by having a pretty baby mithril shirt made (sex and reproduction being the same thing for Elves as per LaCE, the most potent Elf aphrodisiac is shiny baby clothes - they just can't resist it)... So the shirt ended up in Nargothrond, and was plundered later on, tada !

9. A gift from Finrod to Galadriel for a potential baby : she badgered him to marry and have children, and according to some versions of the Legendarium Galadriel remained bethroted to Celeborn for most of the First Age and only married him after the fall of Doriath, so maybe Finrod could have tried some Elf aphrodisiac of his own to try and get his little sister to finally get married and give him some nephews and nieces. He had the dwarven connections. He liked jewellery. He had the shirt made but did not have time to give her the gift before he died.

10. Legolas : Unlikely, but he's an Elf prince. His father likes fancy stuff. His grandfather much less so, hence the move to Greenwood, so the mithrill shirt would have been out of character there. They have terrible relations with the dwarves (better before the whole Smaug business though, but still as Doriath Elves they are not on super good terms). So who knows. War-traumatized Thranduil might have ordered it before Smaug's attack. Unlike Elrond, he kind of strikes me as the guy who would mention it, though.

11. Celebrimbor : he was already an adult when he moved to Middle-Earth so wouldn't have worn the shirt there, but might have been the right age when his grandad, aka the best Elven-smith ever, was taken by "making weapons fever". Fëanor could have made the beautiful shirt for a young Telpe. Either him or Curufin then brought it with them during the Exile because it was a masterpiece and a family heirloom. It could have ended up being plundered from sacked Eregion. It could have been found on Curufin's dead body at Doriath (he kept it with him in memory of his son and carried it with him to Doriath because he knew he was going to die there). If we want to go very goth and dark, it could have been stolen from Curvo's tomb if he was buried with it (I like it !)

12. It wasn't made for an Elf-prince at all : nobody really knows for whom it was made. It looked very fancy, so Thorin just assumed it had been made for "an elf Prince", without giving it further thought. He just meant a super fancy Elf, not necessarily a prince. Could well have been made for someone else (a fancy Numenorean ? A fancy Man ? A fancy hobbit ?).

Or just, Jirt wrote The Hobbit way before the Silm and did not think that he was then going to write a prequel for which he would also write extensive side-notes in which he was going to say that there were very few Elf-prince babies born after the Exile.

[ozimiri]

Glamdring and Orcrist in the Hobbit Trilogy

Rewatching the Hobbit movies again, and I noticed something fascinating about Orcrist & Glamdring, the swords that Gandalf & the company find in the troll hoard.

Elrond identifies the sword Gandalf carries as Glamdring, the sword of the King of Gondolin, Turgon son of Nolofinwe. Turgon is Elrond's grandfather: Turgon's daughter Idril Celebrindal is mother to Eärendil, Elrond's father.

And after that, he hands it back. He and Gandalf don't say anything to each other about how it technically belonged to Elrond's grandfather. Elrond has a hefty claim on that sword through family inheritance alone, yet he says nothing about it.

Meanwhile this little shit:

Legolas. Honey. You are actually the only elvish prince in all of Middle-Earth who has zero claim to that sword.

Gondolin was a Noldor city, and Turgon was a Noldor king of the line of Finwe. Legolas and Thranduil are Grey-elves, and as far as we know, they have no family connections to the Noldor. In fact the line of Thranduil is notable for being one of the only lines of elven royalty still in power who were never majority or partially Noldor. (Unless Legolas's dead mother was Noldo--but even so, it seems weird that she would be and this would have zero impact on Legolas, until the moment he sees a shiny and suddenly it's essential to his identity.)

And it's not as though Legolas doesn't know what it is. He identifies it on sight as being from Gondolin, and of Noldor make: "Echannen i·vegil hen vi·nGondolin - magannen nan·Gelydh."

I know that it's an elven sword being carried around by a bunch of dwarves. Legolas does have more ties to it than Thorin. But not that much more, and not anything close to Elrond.

It speaks to the themes of greed, worthiness, and legacy that are wrapped up in these films. As soon as Legolas sees that sword, it lights something in him that makes him suspicious of Thorin and the company--he desires it. Meanwhile Elrond has an actual claim on it, yet he doesn't voice that. He doesn't need it - for his own identity, or for his own use. It shows how much growing Legolas has to do, and how much Elrond has been through.

(P.S. - it also fascinates me that Glamdring is the famous sword that's shown, because Turgon wasn't exactly known for his fighting during the first age. He literally took all of his people and hid in Gondolin. He fought in the Nirnaeth Arnoediad, but he wasn't involved in the harrying of Morgoth and his forces to any serious extent before that or after. So why this sword? Why it, and not Maedhros or Fingon or Finrod's swords?)