Lord of the rings legolas biography

Fictional elf from Tolkien's legendarium

Fictional character

Legolas (pronounced [ˈlɛɡɔlas]) is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.

He is a Sindar Elf of the Woodland Realm and son of its king, Thranduil, becoming one of the nine members of the Fellowship who set out to destroy the One Ring. Though Dwarves and Elves are traditionally rivals, he and the DwarfGimli form a close friendship during their travels together.

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.

Fictional history

Legolas is the son of Thranduil, King of the Woodland Realm of Northern Mirkwood,^{[T 1]} who appeared as "the Elvenking" in The Hobbit.^{[T 2]} Thranduil, one of the Sindar or "Grey Elves",^{[T 3]} ruled over the Silva