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Legolas in FOTR prologue?

Mr. Arkenstone (isaac)
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Dec 11 2015, 4:57pm

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Im sure this has been discussed but I didnt find it. Is Legolas the elf we see in Mordor during battle of the last alliance?

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Darkstone
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Dec 11 2015, 5:04pm

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Played by Ben Britton.

He's also at Helm's Deep

http://www.theargonath.cc/fereveldir/

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Mr. Arkenstone (isaac)
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Dec 13 2015, 6:53am

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Ok thanks! [In reply to] Can't Post

 

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Kelly of Water's Edge
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Dec 19 2015, 3:45pm

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than the other Fellowship members excepting Gandalf (in fact I think I remember him teasing them lightly about that at some early points of the novels) - hence his addition in the Hobbit movies on the grounds that he would likely have been in Mirkwood at the time of Bilbo's adventure - but not old enough to have been around during the Battle of the Last Alliance.


Otaku-sempai
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Dec 19 2015, 7:48pm

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Legolas was considerably older than the other Fellowship members excepting Gandalf (in fact I think I remember him teasing them lightly about that at some early points of the novels) - hence his addition in the Hobbit movies on the grounds that he would likely have been in Mirkwood at the time of Bilbo's adventure - but not old enough to have been around during the Battle of the Last Alliance.


Well, background materials for the LotR films assign the year TA 87 for the birth of Legolas. But I've read guesses for his age in Tolkien's legendarium that puts him anywhere from 500 years old at the time of the War of the Ring to having been born some time in the Second Age. Of course those guesses don't apply to the Peter Jackson films.

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Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure
when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot."


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TaliaEmerald
Bree


Feb 10 2016, 1:18am

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Legolas I think was born a few decades AFTER the battle.

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Otaku-sempai
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Feb 10 2016, 3:28am

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Legolas I think was born a few decades AFTER the battle.


If you mean the Battle of the Last Alliance then Tolkien never said. But if you are thinking of the movie continuity, yes, TA 87 would be a few decades after the battle.

All we know from Tolkien is that Legolas was far older than anyone else in the Fellowship except for Gandalf (and maybe even older than Gandalf in his mortal incarnation).

"Things need not to have happened to be true.
Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure
when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot."


- Dream of the Endless


(This post was edited by Otaku-sempai on Feb 10 2016, 3:30am)


TaliaEmerald
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Feb 19 2016, 11:51pm

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Cool to know!
Thanks. Wink

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