10-13-2003, 08:58 PM | #1 |
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I was thinking, and a question came to my mind. If legolas is the prince of mirkwood, and in the hobbit the elf king of mirkwood, do you think that that was legolas' dad?
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10-13-2003, 09:40 PM | #2 |
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That's right, Thranduil king of Mirkwood was Legolas' dada.
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10-13-2003, 10:18 PM | #3 |
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Yes, though in the Hobbit I don't think they ever mention the king as Thranduil.
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10-14-2003, 04:36 PM | #4 |
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I wonder, if J.R.R. Tolkien had already written LOTR, would he have put Legolas in The Hobbit?
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10-15-2003, 02:18 PM | #5 |
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originally posted by jsandecker
I wonder, if J.R.R. Tolkien had already written LOTR, would he have put Legolas in The Hobbit? _________________________________________________ Of course. Legolas had been around for a while and was probably a veteran goblin and spider fighter. In LOTR when the three hunters enter Fangorn Forest he says: "It is old, very old," said the Elf. "So old that almost I feel young again, as I have not felt since I journeyed with you children. It is old and full of memory. I could have been happy here, If I had come in days of peace."
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10-22-2003, 01:52 PM | #7 |
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That is such a cool thought: that Bilbo might have seen Legolas in the elf-king's halls. The immortality of the elves and their changelessness is such a neat tie between The Sil, and The Hobbit, and LOTR. Hats off to Tolkien (yet again!!).. or hoods, if you prefer.
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10-24-2003, 06:21 PM | #8 |
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Forgive me for disagreeing about the changelessness of the elves but I've read the Hobbit, the Silmarillion, and the Lord of the rings and I find an almost entirely different description of them. In the Hobbit they are very happy and gleeful, whereas in the Silmarillion they are grim and at many times melancholly. I admit they were at ceaseless war in the Sil. but this doesn't convey their changelessness.
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