09-24-2003, 02:46 PM | #21 |
AngAdan
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Boerne, Texas
Posts: 856
|
We do not know how many generations of Elves there were before Elwe/Olwe (and Finwe and Ingwe) So there is large expansive possibilities for family connection through earlier generations.
Assuming that Imin, Tatya, & Enel are anything other than myths (or even if they are myths), It is likely that most noble/royal/princely houses (Like Gwinder's family or Glorfindal's or Lenwe's) claim descent from them. With 'immortality" and nearlyperfect memories, we can assume that Elves are very knowledgable about they ancestry and relations for many generations.
__________________
Gaius Mucius Scaevola Older, richer, and wiser than you "Mighty are the Ainur, and mightiest among them is Melkor, but that he may know, and all the Ainur, that I am Iluvatar, those things that ye have sung, I will show them forth, ... And thou, Melkor, shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me," |
09-25-2003, 09:57 AM | #22 |
Elven Warrior
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Birmingham, UK
Posts: 221
|
I have always liked the idea that Legolas' mother would have been one of the Wood Elves (Thranduil apparently being of Sindarin origin). Legolas declares in "The Ring goes south" that he is of the Silvan folk. I don't know why but are can't really think of him as of purely Sindarin origin. He must have been brought up, of course, amongst Silvan Elves so he would have developed through their own, quite unique, culture anyway.
It is a strange but excellent choice for Tolkien to have chosen one of the Silvan folk to be a part of the fellowship. It demonstrates that they ALSO were a part of ME
__________________
Durin the Sleepless! |
09-25-2003, 09:58 PM | #23 |
Banned
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: I have no idea.
Posts: 5,441
|
No way is Finrod related to Legolas! NO WAY!!! I can not accept that Legolas, the barely-do-anything-at-all, and Finrod, the-most-brave-loyal-fair-and-wonderful-
of-all-Elves-ever, are related, even remotely. no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no *curls into a corner and rocks back and forth with glossy eyes* |
09-25-2003, 10:52 PM | #24 |
Lord of the Pants
Join Date: Apr 2003
Posts: 1,382
|
Ruey, you should stop using shampoo on your eyeballs. It ain't healthy.
|
09-26-2003, 01:25 PM | #25 | |
Elven Warrior
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: a castle made of clouds
Posts: 459
|
Quote:
Ah, come on, Ruinel... just because Legolas isn't the multitasker that Aragorn or Gandalf are doesn't mean that he's utterly worthless. He's no Finrod, but who *does* live up to Finrod? Of course, I still don't think they're related.
__________________
Human kind cannot bear very much reality. dreamflower - for all things Lady Galadriel |
|
10-05-2003, 04:39 PM | #26 | ||
Elven Warrior
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: European Union
Posts: 463
|
Quote:
Quote:
__________________
'They need more gardens,' said Legolas. 'The houses are dead, and there is too little here that grows and is glad. If Aragorn comes into his own, the people of the Wood shall bring him birds that sing and trees that do not die.' |
||
10-06-2003, 09:48 AM | #27 | |
Greatest Elven woman of Aman
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Having way too much fun with FĂ«anor's 7
Posts: 4,285
|
Quote:
__________________
--Life is hard, and then we die. |
|
10-07-2003, 08:44 PM | #28 | |
Queen of Nargothrond
Administrator Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Akron, Ohio - USA
Posts: 7,121
|
Quote:
__________________
"Whither go you?" she said. "North away." he said: "to the swords, and the siege, and the walls of defence - that yet for a while in Beleriand rivers may run clean, leaves spring, and birds build their nests, ere Night comes." AboutNewJersey.com - New Jersey Travel and Tourism Guide |
|
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
What All Was Wrong with PJ's LOTR | Wally | Lord of the Rings Movies | 425 | 08-14-2016 08:43 AM |
Story Beginning | Willow Oran | Writer's Workshop | 8 | 03-16-2006 06:44 AM |
Why Legolas? | Valandil | Lord of the Rings Books | 36 | 07-10-2004 06:26 AM |
Legolas the apparently Unwanted | Iboen | Lord of the Rings Books | 47 | 05-11-2003 01:39 PM |
Legolas vs. Aragorn-Whose better? | Evenstar1400 | General Messages | 5 | 01-15-2003 07:05 PM |