I like this notion that he is also carefully watching Legolas and Tauriel. He is certainly quick to dismiss Tauriel when she has perhaps breached his method by threatening the orc with death.

It gives the impression that he is intending to keep the orc alive, which is why it’s all the more enjoyably unexpected when he ‘frees his wretched head from his miserable shoulders’ (I so love that line!) Certainly Legolas looks a bit stunned.

Thranduil’s ‘state visit’ costume is truly a design that looks awesome from behind. The pattern and symmetry of his flash of white hair falling into that triangle that starts at those broad shoulders and falls to a point mid-back. And the crown above, and the colours. I find the aesthetics here very pleasing.

Lol! I always love a good How to Train Your Dragon reference!

Imagine if he did need to! I am thinking two scenarios. (1) Tauriel swings her blade into action, but Thranduil is faster still and parries her, perhaps flinging her sword from her hand. (2) Physically restraining her. Probably a smooth minimalist martial arts-style move, one that wouldn’t physically hurt her but would perhaps place her arm behind her back. I wonder if he has ever had to manhandle – or make that elfhandle – his elves.

These HACF images are all I can get of the show – can’t even watch the trailers because of zoning. (Of course I could try to use that tool to get around it…. haven’t tackled that yet)

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I like your piece about fan fiction writing (you've posted some of it here before, haven't you?) and your writing even just about writing seems excellent.

I really like pics of Oropher, Thranduil and Legolas all together! It strikes me as very sweet and I feel like they would have been a very loving and close-knit family had it not been for the tragedy of Oropher’s death in the LA. In my head-cannon I imagine that the pain of losing his father so abruptly and all of the responsibilities of being king being suddenly thrust upon him is one of the reasons Thranduil tends to be so cold and withdrawn during the time of TH.

I was looking at some of the artists other Thranduil/Oropher works too and they’re great, but I have one complaint that’s really more of a minor (and rather knit-picky) technicality: In the other pics, they’ve got Thrandy and Orry (Oro?) with bows and quivers of arrows as if they’re going hunting or something, but then both of them are still dressed in their long, flowing robes. Who would go hunting in robes like that? They’d get all dirty and catch on branches and roots and get torn to bits! And what if they’re hunting something particularly dangerous, like orcs, and they have to run away (or run after them for that matter and their robes catch on something and they get caught? It’s not practical at all! (Ok, my knit-picking rant is done)

After a couple of weeks dealing with cheap hotel internet service, I will never... Strike that. I will try never to complain about my crap home internet service ever again.