Oct 11, 2025
Okay, so Tolkien described Thranduil sitting in a great hall, wearing a crown of berries and red leaves, holding a carven staff of oak.
Which is nice, paints a lovely picture, but do you guys think he meant this:
Or this?
Technically, he's got the staff. He's got the berries. Eerily faithful to what Tolkien wrote. He even has the elvish long golden hair of the Elvenking, albeit only around his temporal cranium, but still-
What if... What if this was what Tolkien intended all along?
What if. What then?
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