#legolas of gondolin

[laisrinel]

Legolas of Gondolin meeting Gimli the Gnome - Part 1

Worked on my vision of my own post

Part 2

Legolas, an elf of the house of the Tree of Gondolin (Book of Lost Tales), met Gimli, a gnomish elf rescued from Telvido (Book of Lost Tales).

There is near to nothing in canon about these two but I hc they meet at Nan-Tathren or the Havens of Sirion.

Legolas is in his house attire. We know his house helped the refugees of Gondolin to escape and he was at the front of the escape. So he survived Gondolin. For now, he is not in guard duty but it's kind of a habit to keep his weapon ready. His hairs are braid (the fall of Glorfindel is still recent) and he's ready to put on his helmet if necessity arise.

Gimli was meditating before hearing a stranger approach. He likes to be in natural places and listen to trees and animals. He still has some ptsd from his captivity. His clothing is more modest and more sinda/nando : his captivity was really long and he lost envy to beautiful gnomish noldorin things. He keeps long clothings to hide his scars and a band on his eyes to show is blindess to others. He also always keeps a small sword with him : he will never be retaken alive ! and a stick to help him.

My principal hc is that they will help each other to heal. That's the most important. The tree shows it : the left part dying in the past and the right part going better in the future.

[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 :')

[azalearanger]

"For the valour of the Edain the Elves shall ever remember as the ages lengthen, marvelling that they gave life so freely of which on earth they had so little." - Ulmo to Tuor (The Fall of Gondolin)

How tragic, how heartbreaking and bittersweet, that the greatest gift of undying friendship of men to elves must be cut short by death.

How heart-wrenching for the Eldar to linger on with the memory of that gift, a hole torn in the flowing fabric of their ageless years, a friend never returning, never to meet again beyond the western sea.

What choice do they have, but to return this gift to the children of their dearest friends, fleeting though their time may be.

[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)

[russandolly]

if the good professor had still been alive you bet i’d be writing him weekly asking for updates and more detailed information about my favourite characters like a weekly episode of keeping up with the silmarillions

[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

[sesamenom]

i mean, the Elvish part of the title is somewhat debatable in elrond's case - does it count by virtue of being an Elvish *title* (despite the doriathrim side being previously held by a peredhil, and both sides being inherited through peredhel lineage), or must one also be a full elf (and not just the counted-among-the-eldar-for-file-management-purposes thing) to qualify?

I think that one of the funniest things about Legolas (especially in the movies) is that he’s literally the only Elvish prince in all of Middle-Earth but everyone treats him like he’s just a random guy. And he ACTS like just a random guy as well which makes it even better

[laisrinel]

Legolas of Gondolin and Gimli the Gnome - Part 2

Part 1

[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.

[illegally-blind-and-deaf]

More Pippin Headcanons because I can :)

and also cause he's a fun lil guy

Pervinca and Merry are the closest in age of the Took/Brandybuck cousins. As Pippin was the youngest (and Vinca is closest in age to Pippin), he was often roped with the two of them when they went out, or when there was any family event. This led to Merry quickly taking Pippin under his wing and they very quickly became known for their shenanigans, along with Vinca.

As Pippin is a Took and the son of the Thain, he learnt how to fire a bow and arrow. It's not something popular with hobbits (they're not aggressive creatures unless they have to) and so it was never brought up in conversation, until Legolas wanted to show his halfling companions how to fire an arrow. (He saw Boromir and Aragorn teaching Merry and Pippin how to use a sword and wanted to bond with them also, so he jumped on the "teach them how to use a weapon" bandwagon.) To everyone's (but Merry's) surprise, Pippin actually knew what he was doing. Although he wasn't nearly as skilled as the elf, he could hit a target and, after much effort, managed to fire Legolas' bow, which felt like a war longbow to the small hobbit. Legolas ended up making him a smaller replica of his bow as a parting gift.

Pippins vests were embroider along the edges with things like leaves, berries, birds and especially butterflies. He has one for very fancy occassions that have tiny fairies dancing in flowers with dragonflies and ladybeetles, though Vinca would often tease him about it. He didn't care; he would instead steal her flower crown for the whole night and make her wear his hat.

(Inspired by a fic written by @rosemary-andtime) Pippin struggled with concentrating and was a very difficult child to teach. He went through several governesses and eventually his father thought he was unreachable. It was Merry who taught Pippin to write and read because he taught him while they were outside, let him run around when he felt restless, and also he discovered Pippin was left-handed. When Merry's arm was injured after the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, he lost his fine-motor skills in his right arm, so Pippin taught him how to write with his left hand also. Merry finally understood why Pippin's handwriting was always smudged.

Pippin thoroughly enjoys reading, as long as it's on a topic that interests him, which is surprisingly a lot. He enjoys stories about adventures and heroes, but he also has been spotted with a history book or two lent by Saradoc Brandybuck after he found Pippin in his study one night, absolutely entranced by the history of Buckland. (Pippin could never read a book on the history of Tookland—he'd spent his whole life learning family trees and the history of his home that the moment anyone mentioned a Ferumbras or the Old Took he immediately groaned at the memory of those painful classes.) It was Elrond at Minas Tirith (after the war) who talked to him about the history of Númenor and of Gondolin, which greatly piqued the young hobbit's interest and eventually led to him having an extensive library on the history of Middle-Earth.

Pippin and Glorfindel 100% got up to shenanigans in Rivendell. They quickly became friends. Pippin didn't write to him for several weeks when he found out Glorfindel's age... and how powerful he was. He was too scared.

Pippin learnt as much of the Elvish languages he could, as well as Gondorian. He translated Bilbo's tale into Gondorian so he could read it to the children in Minas Tirith.

[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)

[eri-pl]

TLDR: good!Maeglin in the Fellowship, he fits there so well!!!

Long post under cut.

So I was thinking about Maeglin and what if didn't betray Gondolin, and about his father's curse and I realized that if he was more heroic, Maeglin would inevitably have died killing a balrog. Because, you know, for some reason the only way to kill a balrog is to fall with it from a great height.

(To clear any doubts: I am assuming the interpretation where (pre-capture) Maeglin behaved like a decent young adult, and Idril behaved like a decent adult and none is to blame.)

There are different ways to do it:

He tells Morgoth where the city is but then warns Turgon, Turgon doesn't evacuate the city anyway, Maeglin does protecting Idril &co from a balrog OR

He doesn't tell Morgoth anything, is allowed to escape and Morgoth learns the location of the city by having someone follow Maeglin

He's lucky and doesn't get captured at all, someone else betrays the city, or Morgoth just brute-forces the location OR

Anyway, Maeglin dies fighting a balrog and it's a hero

So, he's sent to ME instead of Glorfindel, because:

A smith (and we have to get rid of a metal thing so it fits?)

Sneaking skills 100/100

He's got a talking sword!

Therefore:

→ → → Maeglin in the Fellowship ← ← ←

(Glorfindel didn't get in because he was too noticeable; Maeglin is not noticeable, he's good to go)

I think he'd replace Legolas. He can have all the same BFF beats with Gimli, it just starts different, not "sorta-enemies to BFFs" but "one-side racism, one-side fascination to BFFs" because Maeglin sure loves Dwarves. And tbh Gimli is less against him than against Legolas (see: Thranduil's behavior in "the Hobbit").

Also also:

Aragorn: You have my sword. Gimli: And my axe. Anguirel: And my Elf.

@lanthanum12 you may like it (and maybe he'd be able to talk to the ring, because of his awesome skills with metal, and well, I can't imagine him persuading Sauron to be better but you probably can. :) )

Also: "Boromir, you think you have a difficult father?!? You know nothing."

Also, Anguirel. In general.

…If anyone feels like writing this fic, have fun!

Edit: ok this goes up in the queue (my posting methodology is elaborate and makes no sense ok?) because I got hyped because this means Maeglin gets to save Frodo after he gets stabbed by the witch king, and the location and vibe of the wound is (iirc) the same as the the wound with which his father killed his mom??? Ooooh! I want this fic to exist

Ok ok ok did I just find a way to get more invested into Maeglin? (He's less evil in here but anyway)

Also: Anguirel talks telepathically with unconscious Frodo but it's nice, not like Anglachel was to Túrin. Yes, we need to figure out how even Anguirel got back with Maeglin. I guess it was in the Gondolin-stuff-heap in the Hobbit, with Glamdring and what not. And then Gandalf gave it to Maeglin later.

Also we need a way for Gandalf to die on the Balrog and for Maeglin to survive but not to be a coward. I say: just wound him enough or something, it shouldn't be very difficult to make it work.

Mmm I'm more and more hyped about it.

OK tbh he'd likely go by Lómion, but I'm too accustomed to calling him "Maeglin". Sorry.

Maeglin would have a *perfect* chemistry with Frodo, they both have this particular vibe, how do I explain it, perceptive, quiet and somewhat dark but not evil. I mean this AU's Maeglin and Frodo after some time with the Ring. The trauma, the healing… seriously I can see Maeglin as being the person who spends the most time with post-ring Frodo and introduces him to Undying Lands and later holds him as he dies.

Also:

Maeglin: Oh, you found the chainmail I had made for Earendil! Hi, chainmail. Nice to see you. Frodo (scared): …does it talk too? Maeglin: No, but that's not a reason to be rude to it! Frodo (to the chainmail): …nice to meet you.

Also with Elrond: both had absent fathers but one because the dad was so good, the other because the dad was so evil (and also bc Turgon). Both grew up without their mothers and with a parent figure being someone who caused (at least partially) the absence of their parents (Maglor and Turgon, also both of those are kinslayers idk what the official version is about Turgon).

Also, Maeglin lived very short (only 190 years! Another reason to let him spend more time in ME!!!) so outside of Aman he behaves a bit child-like sometimes, he generally feels much younger than he is, because old habits kick in. And Elrond is reacting to this in a parental way. But also Maeglin is older than Elrond, probably even without counting the years in Mandos he's a bit older, and is Elrond's weird-kind-of-granduncle (+ had had a crush on Elrond's grandma… took some time in Mandos to get free of it).

Oh and in this AU he saved Elrond's father's life.

I don't think he'd have much in common with Elrond's children. They respect each other, of course, but they just don't vibe together much.

But with Aragorn, oh, Maeglin would see Aragorn as a parallel of Tuor, and therefore an opportunity to address his regrets. Yes, even though Maeglin behaved ok in this version, his intense emotions still prevented him from forming a friendship with Tuor (until Aman, at least) and generally ... he has regrets.

And he is really invested in the Aragorn x Arwen thing. Maeglin the shipper. :D

And as he replaces Legolas, we are having the whole "three hunters" part, so Maeglin does get to spend a lot of time with Aragorn and do cool stuff together.

Also: Maeglin being the one to reforge Anduril? (This might have some side effects in the form of: Anduril kinda talks now)

He would also have interesting interactions with Celeborn. Not very intense, but he is distantly related to Eol (probably) and I imagine he's got similar ethnic/cultural/whatev background, so looks a bit similar to Eol, just is nice and respects his wife and doesn't hunch or work with metals… And Celeborn would be likely aware of this, he knows the stories. It would be a little awkward and both would be very emotionally cautious at the start.

And with Eowyn, he'd vibe with Eowyn too. Her feeling locked, all that stuff, she's got Aredhel vibes. A lot. Hmm now I want Meaglin to be involved in getting Eowyn alive from the battlefield and getting her healed. So many opportunities to relive and heal his past griefs!

Also he of course sees the whole romantic mess of her-Aragorn-Faramir and actively ships her w Faramir because he's got experience and doesn't want Eowyn to end up sad due to unrequited love, like he was. Mmm Maeglin the shipper again. XD

I need to reread LotR or at least rewatch it, I had to check whether Legolas was there. (And yea, we're basically replacing him with Maeglin without large-scale changes of the journey path).

Earlier, of course Maeglin would figure out that Gandalf the White was Gandalf, not Saruman, but Maeglin is a quiet guy and doesn't like to speak loud unconfirmed guesses, so we can have the suspense anyway.

[sesamenom]

Sketch doodle of possible-reverse-au-legolas (Doriathrim raised in Gondolin and Sirion) and Canon Legolas