The elf legolas greenleaf is actually first mentioned in the fall of gondolin although we cant be too sure if this is actually the same legolas. Ive been a legolas girl ever since the fellowship and thats never lessened, but when the first hobbit came out i was surprised to be drawn to the dwarves. Technically, legolas does not appear in any version of j. Nowhere in tolkiens books is mentioned that the seven and the. There are also some stories that either dont mention legolas at all or focus on him. At the beginning of the lotr filming orlando bloom was 22 years old, a young man full of energy.
Legolas will be in the hobbit movie but is legolas in the hobbit book. Some people have expressed concern that peter jackson is departing from the spirit of the books by expanding the story of the hobbit to cover two three movies. The desolation of smaug orlando bloom discusses his return as legolas in the hobbit. An archive of our own, a project of the organization for transformative works. Oct 17, 20 orlando bloom talks the return of legolas in the hobbit. Everything that happens after hobbit battle of five armies. The desolation of smaug, orlando bloom returns to the role of legolas. Unfortunately, the hobbit movie had happened almost 20 years later than the lord of the rings. Strideraragon wouldnt have been born yet, so how is thranduil making a reference to strider.
Legolas will be the main link between the hobbit and. He and gimli accompany aragorn through paths of the dead, later he fights on pelennor fields and at the black gate. When legolas first realizes he is about to face durins bane in moria he clearly loses his cool. Legolas was a sindarin elf of the silvan realm of mirkwood, the only recorded son of king thranduil. Thorin, bard and tauriel fight the best lord of the rings has to offer as they take on the fellowship. Just wait until the two towers thats when you start getting a bit more legolasgimli crosscultural bonding. Dec 16, 20 legolas was immortal, so it makes sense that he would appear in the hobbit movies.
He finds so much more than just a name among the dunedain though, including friendship, trust and peace at last. Oh no id never would have thought that there would be someone to rival legolas. The battle of the five armies, the fifth movie in which orlando bloom portrays legolas. Is legolas in the real the hobbit book like the movie the desolation of. Women of middleearth legolas, tauriel, gandalf, tolkien books, jrr tolkien. Just repetitive and often lazy action sequences with all too convenient endings designed to stretch a short hobbit book out into a money grubbing trilogy. Legolas has extremely good hearing as well as eyesight all elves are renowned archers able to hit a birds eye from a long distance. Unfortunately, that is just the way movie making goes. Why is it you never hear his name mentioned among the best childrens authors. Why are saruman, radagast, and galadriel in the hobbit. Although legolas does not appear anywhere in the novel the hobbit, he has a significant role as the son of the elven king thranduil within their mirkwood realm. T 2 thranduil, one of the sindar or grey elves, t 3 ruled over the silvan elves or woodelves of mirkwood.
Lee pace has made a big leap from shy piemaker in pushing daisies to thranduil, the imperious king of mirkwood in peter jacksons the hobbit. In fact, the king isnt even named in the book, not to mention any sons he might have, and the description of the woodelves is a far cry from that of the elves in the. In the book of the hobbit, bilbo is probably less than a mile away from legolas for quite a long time during the middle of the book. Pj changed legolas eyes in the hobbit to distinguish him from from the silvan elves of mirkwood, as thranduil and his son legolas are. Imagine legolas reaction after you got hurt orc hunting from the story legolas imagines the hobbit by lokilas l. Read li imagine legolas reaction after you got hurt orc hunting from the story legolas imagines the hobbit by lokilas l. Pictures and is the second installment in the threepart film series based on the novel the hobbit by j. The lord of the rings, all 480,000plus words of it, was already a fairly. There also was no love story between a dwarf and an elf.
For a start, the new edit sounds like a right old sausagefest, as to be fair was the original book. For examble, the hobbit features several characters from the lord of the rings who were not in the former. Orlando bloom is saying goodbye to one of the most iconic roles of his career, legolas, the elven son of thranduil in the hobbit. Technically they are included in the hobbit by authorial fiat. The hobbit legolas greenleaf an unexpected journey 3.
None of tolkiens works makes any mention that legolas and bilbo ever met. Evangeline lilly played tauriel in two hobbit movies. They are just stories that i like and dont want to lose track of. However, christopher tolkien, writing in the book of lost tales i suggests that the golden hair was given only to those elves of noldor descent. The hobbit 2003 video game legolas makes a cameo as one of the woodelves that bilbo must avoid in the barrels out of bond level. The dwarves looked out of place in their furs and traveling gear, but you were happy that your father had allowed them out of the kitchen. We always exclude galadriel from the list of female characters included in the hobbit but she has been there since october 1955, the month that the return of the king was published. Now that the dust has settled a good 6 months following the release of the third installment, what is this subs overall opinion of the trilogy as whole. He became famous because of his membership in the fellowship of the ring, in which he served as one of their most valuable assets because of his superior sight, hearing, lightness of foot, and unrivaled archery.
This is a very nice action figure of legolas from the hobbit. Well, come and find out in this little fanfiction of mine. The desolation of smaug will introduce many a new face to peter jacksons cinematic version of middleearth as teased in the fulllength theatrical trailer, in addition to one familiar and wellchiseled mug. What might happen when a young human is ripped away from her home and is forced to fend for herself in an unforgiving middle earth. But legolas wasnt even mentioned in the book, only his father was and even then. No, legolas does not appear in the original text of the hobbit, even though thorins. No, legolas does not appear in the original text of the hobbit, even though thorins company does go through mirkwood and meet the woodelves and their king. A growing sense of foreboding forces legolas to choose between the will of his father and his own conscience. Thorin oakenshield richard armitage, his mighty band of dwarves, bilbo baggins martin freeman, and wise wizard gandalf ian mckellen embark on a crusade to reclaim erebor from the vicious dragon smaug voiced by benedict cumberbatch in this sweeping fantasy adventure that picks up where the events of the hobbit. Jan 25, 2015 the hobbit thranduil and legolas lara day. Orlando bloom says goodbye to legolas in the hobbit. The contradiction in this is that thranduil was not of the finfarin house. Sure, you can say people talk about the hobbit all the time and technically it is a childrens book, but it is never really discussed that way. Why does legolas seem so different in the hobbit movies.
While most of his backstory is unknown, lets take a moment to learn more about the agile wood elf from the lord of the rings, legolas greenleaf. Lord of the rings the hobbit legolas and gimli legolas would never get tierd before gimli, but this. Is legolas in the real the hobbit book like the movie quora. For now, legolas is mainly present to give the fellowship an elf member. Legolas the one wiki to rule them all fandom lotr wiki. Bloom joins ian mckellen, ian holm, andy serkis, christopher lee. The hobbit an unexcepted journey the hobbit the desolation of smaug the hobbit battle of the five armies song. Bloom reprised his role as legolas in jacksons 20 release the hobbit. Legolas was the son of thranduil, king of the woodland realm of northern mirkwood, t 1 who appeared as the elvenking in the hobbit. Some people mistake his surname as greenleaf which is actually the translation of his name from elvish forgive me since i dont know if its sindarin or quenya. After the battle of five armies, legolas went north in search of the young ranger known as strider. The actor orlando bloom interprets again the elf legolas in peter jacksons the hobbit. Buy the hobbit legolas greenleaf an unexpected journey 3. Please practice handwashing and social distancing, and check out our resources for adapting to these times.
Lord of the rings vs the hobbit battles comic vine. He is a sindarin elf of the woodland realm and one of the nine members of the fellowship who set off to destroy the one ring. Flies and spiders, legolas may therefore, have inherited the golden hair of his father. Orlando bloom discussed the relationship between legolas and his father. No starting of the forges and molten gold to bury smaug in you cant possibly think that you could kill a fire breathing dragon with molten anything. He used a bit of authorial magic to accomplish this feat, bypassing all publisher obstructions to his purpose. Legolas was first introduced in the lord of the rings. For a start, the new edit sounds like a right old sausage fest, as to be fair was the original book. Tolkien never revealed any details about the mother of legolas, peter jackson made some fictional additions in the hobbit.
The desolation of smaug, including his relationship with his father king thranduil lee pace and prejudice against dwarfs. Is it because the time gap that legolass eyes are different in hobbit and lotr. Legolas greenleafthorin oakenshield works archive of our own. Legolas will be the main link between the hobbit and lord. Just because she wasnt mentioned in the lord of the rings, doesnt mean that she wasnt waiting for him back in mirkwood. And readers of the books can look at these passages and feel that even if legolas had not yet been fully imagined and named, perhaps tolkien. Orlando bloom talks about being younger legolas the. Jan 09, 2015 as a legolas fan, may i also say that i think peter jackson owed us the legolas of the hobbit, after creaming off some of his best bits in lotr to boost aragorns image horsewhispering, singing in elvish etc. Before the fellowship departed from lothorien, legolas was given a new. Also, to rehash the earlier discussion, i think pj changed legolas eyes in the hobbit to distinguish him from from the silvan elves of mirkwood, as thranduil and his son legolas are both of the sindar sindarin. Legolas agreed to persuade your father to let the company eat in the great hall with you. Legolas is 2931 years old during the war of the ring, and thus was born in t. Movies always change aspects of books that theyre based on.
Just because she wasnt mentioned in the lord of the rings, doesnt. Legolas whose name in sindarin means greenleaf is an elf of the sindar, a member of the fellowship of the ring. The british actor is reprising his role from the other peter jackson trilogy, the lord of the rings, and this is the last film in which audiences will see him wearing the now famous long blonde hair. Not that aragorn cant do these things, but legolas is the elf of the fellowship. They are also known as grey elves and were kind of treated like nobles by the lesser elves. The sculpting and painting look really nice and detailed. In fact, the king isnt even named in the book, not to mention any sons he. Jul 31, 2014 orlando bloom is saying goodbye to one of the most iconic roles of his career, legolas, the elven son of thranduil in the hobbit. In the film adaptations of the hobbit, legolas says that his mother had died in battle between the elves and the orcs. This years second installment in the sprawling threepart movie adaptation of j.
While not being mentioned in the original book, frodo elijah wood, saruman sir. Although legolas does not appear anywhere in the novel the hobbit, he has a. Legolas orlando bloom the hobbit movie the hobbit production more than a decade has now passed since the filming of the original lord of the rings series, however, orlando bloom has the task of having to look younger in his role of legolas, considering the hobbit takes place much earlier. Well, come and find out in this little fanfiction of. The desolation of smaug is a 20 epic fantasy adventure film directed by peter jackson and produced by wingnut films in collaboration with new line cinema and metrogoldwynmayer. Legolas will be in the hobbit movie but is legolas in the. Now, the events in the hobbit are around 60 years before the events in the lord of the rings. Legolas is the prince of greenwood, which became mirkwood during the journey of the company of thorin oakenshield read the hobbit as evil started to return to the forest. Legolas greenleafthorin oakenshield works archive of. Mar 11, 2020 legolas is a playable character, skilled in both ranged and melee.
He barely has a role in lotr and the hobbit but i still love him. Why legolas belongs in the hobbit the silver petticoat. Legolas will be in the hobbit movie but is legolas in the hobbit. Legolas was immortal, so it makes sense that he would appear in the hobbit movies. As a legolas fan, may i also say that i think peter jackson owed us the legolas of the hobbit, after creaming off some of his best bits in lotr to boost aragorns image horsewhispering, singing in elvish etc. When in a natural environment, legolas can move undetected and unhindered and at his top speed in the book fellowship of the ring, legolas stood up and sprinted across the top of the drifts of. Considering he doesnt get a mention in the book, the film certainly. Book and film differences the hobbit wiki guide ign. The character, who guides survivors of the sack of the city to safety, is mentioned only once. Yes, even before peter jackson sat down to make the film, we knew what would happen after the hobbit. Commentators have noted that legolas serves as a typical elf in the story. As for tauriel, its quite possible that legolas and her, or another female elf, had a relationship.
From what i understand its quite bad but i feel like we focus too much on the bad and not enough on the good. Orlando bloom filming a scene as legolas for the hobbit. Orlando bloom talks the return of legolas in the hobbit. Peter jackson writes legolas into the hobbit the escapist. This is the same figure that was released with the hobbit. May 27, 2011 legolas doesnt actually appear in the hobbit book, prompting some responses on jacksons facebook page such as. But beyond legolas elfishness, he doesnt have a lot going on, at least not in the fellowship of the ring. Orlando bloom returns to play legolas, an elf who was a member of the fellowship of the ring in the lord of the rings. Just a simple legolas x reader for all my lotr fans out there. Thranduil mentioning strider aragorn at the end of the.
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