20 Facts About Legolas

Legolas is a fictional character in JR R Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.

Legolas is a Sindar Elf of the Woodland Realm and one of the nine members of the Fellowship who set out to destroy the One Ring.

Commentators have noted that Legolas serves as a typical Elf in the story, demonstrating more-than-human abilities such as seeing further than anyone else in Rohan and sensing the memory of a long-lost Elvish civilisation in the stones of Hollin.

Legolas was the son of Thranduil, King of the Woodland Realm of Northern Mirkwood, who appeared as "the Elvenking" in The Hobbit.

Legolas is introduced at the Council of Elrond in Rivendell, where he came as a messenger from his father to discuss Gollum's escape from their guard.

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Legolas was chosen to be a member of the Fellowship of the Ring, charged with destroying the One Ring.

Legolas accompanied the other members in their travels from Rivendell to Amon Hen, When the fellowship was trapped by a snowstorm while crossing the Misty Mountains, Legolas scouted ahead, running lightly over the snow, and told Aragorn and Boromir that the thick snow they were trying to push through was only a narrow wall.

In Moria, Legolas helped fight off Orcs and recognized "Durin's Bane" as a Balrog.

Legolas spoke to the Elf-sentries there on behalf of the Fellowship.

Legolas interpreted this as foretelling the end of his stay in Middle-earth:.

Galadriel's prophecy was fulfilled: as Legolas heard the cries of seagulls, he experienced the Sea-longing — the desire to sail west to Valinor, the "Blessed Realm", latent among his people.

Legolas fought in the Battle of the Pelennor Fields and at the Black Gate, and watched as Sauron was defeated and Barad-dur collapsed.

The Tolkien critic Paul Kocher writes of the same passage that it shows how Elves such as Legolas have senses keener than mortal Men: he can see further and can even hear the stones lamenting the passing of the Elves.

In Kocher's view, Legolas is an "emissary for the Elves", as Gimli is for the dwarves; he suggests that the point Tolkien was making was that Legolas was a typical young elf.

Tolkien scholar Tom Shippey observes that Legolas, describing the great hall of Meduseld in the capital of Rohan, too far off for any but an Elf to make out clearly, speaks a line which is a direct translation of one from Beowulf: "The light of it shines far over the land", lixte se leoma ofer landa fela.

Legolas was voiced by Anthony Daniels in Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated version of The Lord of the Rings.

Legolas was voiced by David Collings in the 1981 BBC Radio 4 adaptation.

Legolas was presented as an unstoppable fighter, performing dramatic feats of battle.

Legolas's role in the films is an addition, as he did not appear in the novel.

Legolas appeared as a playable character in Lego Dimensions as an expansion character, bundled with an arrow launcher.