Legolas of Lasgalen

Semi-Selective Legolas from Tolkien's works

[kolanisko]

I don't recommend anyone to watch the 1978 Lord of the Rings cartoon, but Legolas with big pointy ears would have looked definitely even funnier there

[chupacabraz]

aragorn, with endless experience of controlling his own desires and yearning for what is golden, beautiful, powerful and overwhelmingly tempting after decades of friendship with legolas: this ring shit easy

[reallyhardy]

the lord of the rings: a musical tale at the watermill theatre, july - october, 2023.

act two. [act one.]

[reallyhardy]

the lord of the rings: a musical tale at the watermill theatre, july - october, 2023.

act one. [act two.]

[medium-observation]

One Ring To Rule Them All...

Lord Of The Rings: A Musical Tale - Chicago 2024

Video Release: https://discord.gg/ZGMqkeb9p5

[wakingupthetrees]

legolas seems like a collector to me. he feels like the type to pick things up and pocket them for later, especially things that remind him of his friends. rocks for gimli, feathers for frodo etc

[wakingupthetrees]

do you think legolas instinctively collected different leaves and berries to decorate thranduil's crown with as the seasons changed forgetting that he wasn't able to give them to him because he was on the quest

[penny-anna]

hot take: Pippin is the only one of the hobbits who is ‘team Arwen’ in the ‘who is the most beautiful woman in the world’ argument

[penny-anna]

Pippin, after being formally introduced to Arwen for the first time: hey Merry. do you think if I asked nicely enough she’d marry me instead?

Merry: Pippin. *lays a comforting hand on his shoulder*

Merry: I think it is worth a shot.

Pippin: got it *wanders away*

Frodo: why would you do that

Merry: I want to see if he’ll really try it

[penny-anna]

#PIPPIN: IF I BEAT STRIDER IN ROCK PAPER SCISSORS CAN I MARRY YOU INSTEAD? #ARWEN: UHHHHHHH #PIPPIN: GREAT! BRB

Aragorn accepts the challenge knowing full well that, as he can literally read minds, it is impossible to beat him at rock paper scissors.

[riptidethepen]

Aren’t you forgetting the minor detail that Pippin would likely never think of which one he will throw?

[penny-anna]

consider: Aragorn accepts the challenge assuming he’ll win easily. Pippin wins immediately.

Arwen: well, now I must marry him. we ageed.

Pippin: :D

Aragorn: Arwen please

Arwen: I love my tiny fiance

[riptidethepen]

I love it

[penny-anna]

Elrond: I don’t like it either but you agreed that if he beat you in fair combat then he could marry Arwen

Elrond: so now my daughter must marry this hobbit

Arwen: I’m comfortable with that

Aragorn: please this isn’t funny

Arwen: you should have thought of that before you accepted the challenge, I’m engaged to Pippin now.

Pippin: listen I know this isn’t actually going to end with me marrying you but this is still the best day of my life so far

[ok-pop-1]

I love my tiny fiance

[aridante]

get in loser we’re living past the end of our myth

lost, we live beyond the end of our history

This post has been translated to multiple languages and then back to English by Google translate

[bophtelophti]

[forgetriestowrite]

The funniest part of the LOTR movies is Legolas. This man has like five lines total across all three movies but sometimes they'll zero in on his face during a big scene and he's having the BEST reactions. It gets better when he's in the back of a shot judging everyone around him. Orlando Bloom was doing the MOST

[farewell-to-lorien]

Ilúvatar and Ainulindalë

Valar

The Two Trees of Valinor

Thingol and Melian

Ulmo, Ossë and Tol Eressëa

Fëanor and The Silmarils

The Flight of the Noldor

Maedhros and Fingon

The Fall of Fingolfin

Beren and Lúthien

Art by Wavesheep. Part I | Part II | Part III.

[dragon--ashes]

Things I headcanon happens to half-elves (but we are using Elrond as the subject of this post)

Yawning. When Elrond was new to Lindon, Gil-Galad kept thinking his charge was threatening him by baring his teeth.

Illness. I mean there's an entire subsection of ao3 dedicated to Elrond being ill so...

Sneezing from high pollen. It doesn't affect him as he gets older, but when he was young he sneezed in the middle of a ceremony and half of the elves nearly fell off the cliff.

Teeth chattering. Galadriel asked the young half-elf once why he was biting at speed. It was a very confusing half an hour.

Snoring. Gil-Galad had him admitted to the Healers, thinking he had a severe chest infection. Círdan found it very funny.

Pulling faces. This is one exclusive to Elrond as Elros, being the leader of a kingdom of Men, learnt the habit and would stick his tongue out at Elrond, who picked up the action. It resulted in many bemused looks over the years from Elves, so Elrond had to remind himself not to do it. When his brother passed, anytime Galadriel managed to make him smile, she would poke her tongue out at him and his smile would grow ten fold.

Daydreaming. Elves do not daydream, they do not lose themselves in imagination once grown. But occasionally Elrond sported a far-off look.

Bone cracking. Elrond's elbow clicks occasionally and his knees crunch when he crouches. Often, the elves around him are startled and enquire after his health. Elrond was very surprised to hear no one else's joints did that. When he was younger, he would crack his knuckles to make Galadriel shudder, it seemed to make her squeamish.

Laughing. Elrond snorts when he laughs. There is a rumour that Galadriel does the same if you make her laugh hard enough.

Ticklish. Elrond is terribly ticklish in his side and on his neck. Elros used to enjoy poking him in the rib during serious conversations, to see if his twin would jolt and giggle.

[aquitainequeen]

Looking back on it now, I think that one of the strangest things about The Lord of the Rings is that either 

Aragorn and Legolas managed to compose an absolutely epic lament for Boromir in the time it took to get Boromir’s body down to the river and arranged all nicely in the boat, 

or Aragon just started singing on the spur of the moment and Legolas took over for the second verse while Aragorn quickly made up the third. 

That’s some Cyrano de Bergerac wizardry right there.

[absynthe--minded]

Consider: Aragorn and Legolas had a generic lament all worked out with Mad Libs-style blanks for relevant personal details, just in case someone kicked the bucket and nobody else was down for singing their death song

[fargreencountryswiftsunrise]

OR

We take the fact that The Lord of the Rings is multiple of translations before it gets to the reader and is, in fact, made up by a later author and they just did some sort of haiku. 

[beradan]

oh no Boromir

he is very dead what do

put him in the boat

[whetstonefires]

I can absolutely buy that Legolas made up verse two while Aragorn was singing verse one, and that Aragorn’s education was long on ‘spontaneous poetry to suit the occasion.’

Consider, it’s likely there are a couple existing templates for elegies in terms of tune, so they just needed words, and if ‘dialogue with the winds’ is also a common poetic device, the song basically just requires plugging in some suitable rhymes. Aragorn could totally hack that together in the time it took to pile up all the orcs’ weapons and arrange Boromir nicely in the boat and all that.

The wild part to me has always been that they chose to sing as Denethor. Legolas didn’t even know Denethor, and Aragorn knew that Denethor disliked him personally.

[maglor-still-lives]

Aragorn and Legolas share broad elvish music practices, but from wildly different cultures, so it’s possible that the style of their verses did not match up at all

[ach-sss-no]

i just recently reread this and i noticed another wrinkle

‘You left the East Wind to me,’ said Gimli, ‘but I will say naught of it.’ ‘That is as it should be,’ said Aragorn. ‘In Minas Tirith they endure the East Wind, but they do not ask it for tidings.

i know the thing is that the east wind comes from mordor and they’re leaving it out for that reason. but this also sounds like

gimli: you left a verse for me but i’m not doing it aragorn: no no no we didn’t leave a verse for you. we don’t want you to do a verse. we’re good

[rohirric-hunter]

This song was almost certainly a Gondorian lament, with, as someone else suggested, mad-libs style openings for personal details. Aragorn would have known it due to his time spent in Gondor or possibly written it himself in the Gondorian style – he would have used something appropriate to Boromir’s culture at any rate, not something random. Most likely Legolas made up the second verse while Aragorn was singing the first, but a verse was not left for Gimli because it’s less likely he would have the cultural knowledge to compose something appropriate. Legolas shares a language and a number of cultural values with the Gondorians that gave him a window that Gimli just wouldn’t have had.

That being said, I imagine Aragorn didn’t really intend for Legolas to start singing either, he just kind of did and it would have been more disrespectful to pick a fight about it so he went with it. Legolas’ verse has this interesting equating of the sea with death, which makes sense for him, as an Elf who was probably born in the third age. Everyone he ever knew who went to the sea probably never came back, and the concept of Valinor is probably more of a theoretical to him than to many older Elves. Sailing probably seems more like the Doom of Men to him than it really is.

This is, however, not really a cultural concept that Gondorians are likely to share, with their multiple coastal cities and specific history regarding the sea. The foundering of Númenor, while clearly still alive in their cultural memory, was still the event that led to the inception of their nation, and in other poetry regarding Gondor, such as the song about the Palántiri that Gandalf sings to Pippin, it is treated as a beginning, and not an end.

TL;DR: Legolas’ verse is a little bit off, culturally speaking, and most likely Aragorn intended to sing the whole song himself, but just kind of rolled with it when Legolas got involved.

[emfyre]

@sweetshire said prev tags sooo

#elves are absolutely the sort of people who WOULD spontaneously make up songs like that tho #and have the innate sort of music-in-their-souls thing where even a silly flibbertigibbet like legolas could absolutely jump-in like that #and follow someone’s lead even when they start singing in an utterly unfamiliar style and concept #half the conversations in mirkwood are probably spontaneous songs rather than talking #(remember the tra-la-lally elves in the hobbit? elves just do this shit) #(the world was formed from song and elves are tied to the world more than anyone else they are music and music is them yadda yadda) #and aragorn is both a: well-travelled enough and b: familiar enough with elves in general to be unsurprised when legolas jumps in #because OF COURSE he does? he’s an elf and someone is singing a lament for a shared friend OF COURSE HE SINGS TOO? that’s what you DO

#did aragorn deliberately leave an opening for legolas to take the second verse because he knows enough about elves to know he probably woul #or was it a surprise that he just rolled with? idk #but it honestly fits both those characters very well that they would do this like this #(gimli could ABSOLUTELY make up spontaneous songs like this too; but dwarf-songs are very different and probably have more rules) #(at least more rules than wood-elf songs which are probably pretty willy-nilly compared to gondor’s cultural structures) #and the fact that aragorn’s verses sound like something Traditionally Gondorian and probably are drawn from existing frameworks #while legolas’s goes more towards the sea (the sea! he hasn’t even heard the gulls yet and already it’s seeping into his songs! my HEART!) #is exactly the sort of depth and nuance of language i expect from tolkien tbh

tags via @tathrin

[rinthecap]

Legolas chilling under the sun

[philosoverted-deactivated202006]

Do you ever lie awake wondering how the heck Gimli knows what a nervous system is

[systlin]

Clearly dwarves have medical knowledge far more advanced than that of the other races.

[gallusrostromegalus]

His Majesty Dr. Gimli, son of Gloin, Neurosurgeon, M.D.

[filthyprotozoan]

gimli trying to explain his studies to legolas, a flat-earther

[hubris-i]

#*scroll down* #*remember that middle earth is canonically flat for elves and round for everyone else* #*scroll back up & smash that reblog button"

[fridge246]

tired: legolas took gimli to valinor with him because they were bffs/in love/etc. 

wired: legolas took gimli to valinor to prove the world was flat after arguing with him about it for decades

[jemthecrystalgem]

Sorry it’s what to elves

[dvandom]

So, in Tolkein lore, the world was originally flat, with most of the land in the middle (hence Middle Earth).  But the Numenorians (men who were rewarded with their own Atlantis-equivalent island for service in the first big war against Melkor, but eventually Power Corrupts etc) tried to invade the uttermost west which was basically Elf Heaven.  To put an end to that sort of thing, the creator of the world Bent The World and made it a sphere…but left elves able to treat it like a flat disk.  So elves can sail west and reach Elf Heaven, but a man or dwarf or hobbit who sails west will eventually wrap around to the east coast of Middle Earth.

[moomoobooboo-deactivated2020102]

This is why Legolas can see for such great, almost impossible distances. The Earth does not curve for him.

[endreal]

Legolas said fuck the horizon

[divinegaeity-deactivated2023101]

God I fucking love high fantasy

[emilybeemartin]

Boromir Lives AU: Panic! At the Ballroom

Got some new soup for you.

CW! PTSD, panic attack, crowds, physical violence, blood, smoking

It's, uh, less cute soup than some of the others.

The last panel is a nod to when I was having regular panic attacks a few years ago, and the only thing that helped was lying on the floor, the colder and harder the better. At night I would lie in bed and feel like I was drowning in the blankets, until finally I'd move to the bare floor, sometimes with weight on my back, until I eventually fell asleep.

Anyway! Surprisingly this actually came from a very happy and lovely fic in which Boromir has a delightful time; in writing a crowd scene, though, I figured having spent 40+ years training to die in battle, he'd never shake the PTSD. It's okay, Aragorn can spot it coming a mile away. Hard to prep for a crushed windpipe delivered by 250 pounds of war trauma, though. Happy Thursday!

Boromir Lives: Helm's Deep

Boromir Lives: Whump-Time After Pelennor

Boromir Lives: GO TO SLEEP

Boromir Lives: Aragorn's Coronation

Boromir Lives: Faramir and Eowyn's Wedding

Boromir Lives: It's a BABY

Boromir Lives: High Uncle of the White Tower

Boromir Lives: We Didn't Have a Choice

Boromir Lives: The Haircuts

[drewbaylor13]

PETER JACKSON PLEASE GIVE US THIS SCENE. WE NEED IT 😭