leaf :)

resident lotr fan, book reader and weird little guy

[vigilantegreen]

I honestly feel like nobody in lotr mentions how fucking weird Legolas is. He stays up pacing the floor and singing to himself in the dead of night. He deadass stares straight into the tree line in the absolute pitch black when no one else can see anything. He yells goodbye to a river he has heard about in songs. He's so strange and not one character mentions it AT ALL. I absolutely love him.

[vigilantegreen]

I honestly feel like nobody in lotr mentions how fucking weird Legolas is. He stays up pacing the floor and singing to himself in the dead of night. He deadass stares straight into the tree line in the absolute pitch black when no one else can see anything. He yells goodbye to a river he has heard about in songs. He's so strange and not one character mentions it AT ALL. I absolutely love him.

[peculiarend]

and then he starts talking about seagulls ALLL the time 😭😭

[kellzasaurus]

Legolas was always my favorite as a kid for this reason! Both book and movie, even if the movie version isn’t nearly as weird!

I like to think Orlando Bloom was channeling a bit of book Legolas in all those funny screenshots where he’s in the background making weird faces.

[vigilantegreen]

Real. Fabulous addition.

[growingingreenwood]

The Greenwood Elves don’t view themselves as being separate from the ‘lesser’ forest creatures that live in Greenwood the Great. To be honest, the thought has never even occurred to them to do so. They don’t view themselves as better, or smarter, or “above”, the rest of the animals, truly believing that every single squirrel, bird, lizard, elk, wolf, ect has just as much right to live a good life among the forest as they do. 

To them, a “Forest Creature” = Any animal that lives in the forest. 

Greenwood Elves live in the forest = They are forest creatures. 

It's simple to them. They don’t even think that it’s a strange or odd thing to say most of the time. The rest of the world, however…. 

*At some point during the Fellowship's Quest (perhaps when Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli are among the Rohirrim)* 

Legolas: The other forest creatures have come to depend upon us to help heal wounds that were inflicted unnaturally. Arrows, venom wounds, false sicknesses, that sort of thing. 

Gimli, snickering slightly: The OTHER forest creatures, eh?

Legolas: Yes??? 

Aragorn: I think you might have meant to word that differently, my friend. 

Legolas: I absolutely did not. 

Aragorn: The way that you worded it, in Westron, means that you are calling yourself and your people ‘Forest Animals.’ 

Legolas, bewildered: Yes. And? 

Aragorn and Gimli, exchanging confuses looks: ….. 

Legolas: I do not understand what has confused you both so much. 

Gimli: Lad… when others speak about ‘Forest Animals’ and “Forest Creatures” they mean badgers, foxes, chipmunks, that sort of thing. 

Legolas: …..yes. 

Gimli: You are not a badger or a fox or a chipmunk. 

Legolas: …. How astute of you. 

Gimli: So you are not a forest creature…

Legolas: Do I not live in a forest? 

Aragorn: Obviously, the ‘Woodelves’ live in the woods. 

Legolas: Then I continue to not understand the confusion. 

Gimli: Are you telling me that your people think of yourselves as no different from a hedgehog?

Legolas: Of course we do. We aren't stupid. 

Legolas: We don't have quills nor is our preferred diet composed mostly of bugs, and while I’ve always found Hedghogs to be smart little fellows, they aren’t near as good with their hands as we are. 

Gimli: I can't tell if he’s trying to make a joke or not. 

Aragorn: …. I don’t think that he is….

Legolas: What? You think yourselves better than a Hedghog? 

Gimli: I don’t know if ‘better’ is the right word.. but … I do know between me and a Hedghog only one of us can build impressive structures. 

Legolas: So you’re better than a Hedghog but not a Beaver? Is that what I am hearing?

[vigilantegreen]

"Today of all days, it is brought home to me...it is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life" Mr. Baggins, you stole from a dragon. I think our definitions of simple are very different.

[vigilantegreen]

Want a microwave that sings 'Bring Me To Life' by Evanescence except it says 'heat me up inside' when it gets to the chorus.

[vigilantegreen]

What do you think The Fellowship would get each other for a secret santa? I just KNOW Legolas would get someone Potpourri, the same way I know Frodo would get everyone socks despite only actually having to give a gift to one of them, missing the point entirely.

[homosubtext]

smacking thorin oakenshield on top of his head like i’m selling a used car “this baby holds a grudge like you wouldn’t believe”

[vigilantegreen]

I honestly feel like nobody in lotr mentions how fucking weird Legolas is. He stays up pacing the floor and singing to himself in the dead of night. He deadass stares straight into the tree line in the absolute pitch black when no one else can see anything. He yells goodbye to a river he has heard about in songs. He's so strange and not one character mentions it AT ALL. I absolutely love him.

[sugaldean]

Half of them are like "hey it's just an elf yk"

And Aragorn is muttering to himself "no no no that's not it you don't get it he is batshit insane for an elf as well"

[vigilantegreen]

@sugaldean you get it

[sindar-princeling]

Bilbo barely passed Old Took's record lifespan after having a supernaturally-life-extending ring for 60 years. which begs a question. what the hell did Old Took do

[ghostly-atv]

The Two Towers is so funny because Tolkien was such a tree-lover he was basically just like “actually we should give every tree a gun.”

[regiinaaaa]

after rereading the lotr books i just realized that legolas was the spotify of the fellowship. wherever they went, he sang about something in every place lmao

[meteors-lotr]

Imagine the fellowship showing each other pictures and paintings of themselves as children

Everyone cooes over Gimli with the tiniest little beard and mini axe, the Hobbits all sleeping in a little pile of curls and tails, Aragorn in formal elven clothing but his hair is still as messy cause they couldn’t style it even if they tried, Boromir holding a baby Faramir cause he refused to part with him after he was born

And then Legolas shows the ugliest fucking thing any of them had ever seen, looking like a fleshy newborn bird with enormous eyes and ears, and he’s proudly boasting over how he’s seen as one of them most beautiful elven infants in millennium, and the rest of them are afraid to say anything because What The Fuck

[vigilantegreen]

I am not sure what this means but thank you! It is an honour!

[atrustfulplace]

imagine: you are chilling in front you your house getting high. along comes an old family friend who you last saw when you were six, you are now in your 50s. after a brief convo where he is kind of a dick to you, he’s like damn you’ve changed :/. and your like yeah bestie it’s been five decades why the fuck are you here. he leaves. later that night a shit ton of people show up and trash your house. just throw and absolute rager. halfway through the family friend from earlier shows up. he announces in full earshot of everyone that he wants you to come with him to rob a bank. you of course say wtf??? one of the people who broke into your house calls you a pussy. another person shoves you a contract which declares if you get shot robbing the bank they will not pay for your funeral. you pass out. when you wake up you find the contract on your table and your house almost completely back to normal. you stare at the contract for a moment and decide, fuck it this is just as a good a midlife crisis than anything.

this is what happened to bilbo baggins

[vigilantegreen]

I see a lot of hate for The Hobbit films regularly but what I don't see is people saying that actually, people usually have seen The Lord of the Rings before seeing The Hobbit and suddenly, the whole situations a lot more serious! That hobbit had that ring the whole time! Frolicking about with that ring! The whole time!

[vigilantegreen]

I love having friends! Whoop Whoop!! They are so good

[vigilantegreen]

Saw a Reddit post that gave the one ring she/her pronouns and I was literally like "who????" Because first of all, what! And second of all, I've never heard the ring referred to as anything other than "the ring" or "it" before. What a discovery.