Bloom joins ian mckellen, ian holm, andy serkis, christopher lee, cate blanchett, hugo weaving and elijah wood from the lord of the rings trilogy. Legolas is of the people of the sindar, since his father thranduil and his grandfather oropher are sindar ultimately of doriath there are some family trees that tie them to thingol. As a legolas fan, may i also say that i think peter jackson owed us the legolas of the hobbit, after creaming off some of his best bits in lotr to boost aragorns image horsewhispering, singing in elvish etc. Some people have expressed concern that peter jackson is departing from the spirit of the books by expanding the story of the hobbit to cover two three movies.
Tauriel is a character from the feature film adaptation of j. Legolas did not like seeing the small hobbits in discomfort. Orlando bloom returns to play legolas, an elf who was a member of the fellowship of the ring in the lord of the rings. Sets based on this movie are expected in october 2014, while the film will be released in december 2014. It was originally called the hobbit there and back again, which was supposed to final installment of the thentwo part hobbit film, but the title changed. R tolkien that takes place in the fictional world of middle earth, which is the setting of most of the authors works. Little does he know that he is the true object of legolas s love and that his new coldness towards his son is causing him to slowly fade. In fact, the king isnt even named in the book, not to mention any sons he might have, and the description of the woodelves is a far cry from that of the elves in the lord of the rings wild and dangerous and fond of wine. Pippins fingers tighten on the straps of his pack, much to legolas amusement. We re your movie poster source for new releases and vintage movie posters. He is attracted to the elfwoman tauriel, a character created for the film trilogy. To represent the elves, a lord of the rings fanfic. Orlando bloom is saying goodbye to one of the most iconic roles of his career, legolas, the elven son of thranduil in the hobbit. With that said, here are 20 wild things legolas did between the hobbit and the lord of the rings.
Evangeline lilly played tauriel in two hobbit movies. The battle of the five armies is the third and the final movie in the hobbit trilogy. It is a natural part of film adaptation to add, delete, or change characters. Does anyone know why orlando bloom looks so strange in. Technically, legolas does not appear in any version of j. Legolas will be in the hobbit movie but is legolas in the hobbit book. Pj changed legolas eyes in the hobbit to distinguish him from from the silvan elves of mirkwood, as thranduil and his son legolas are both of the sindarin. This article is about the elf of the fellowship of the ring. Legolas kill count auralnauts arcade edition youtube. But it is weird how nobody ever mentions that legolas is son of thranduil, king of the woodland realm. Legolas does not appear in the book the hobbit at all, and thranduil is only. Tolkien and his work, especially in regards to the books the hobbit and the lord of the rings. How much do you know from the most awesome books ever.
Its him though, and peter jackson seized on this tiny thread to capitalize on both legolas and orlando blooms popularity. He is shown as briittle, prejudiced, and anything but a friend to dwarves who are shown as brave. Top ten differences between the hobbit book and films. Yhe hobbit movies were deliberately written to give legolas a back story that does not appear in the books about why he would be open to a frienship with a dwarf when his sister fell in love with one. Legolas was featured in two out of the three films, the hobbit. The character who is legolas does in fact appear in the hobbit book, though he is not named and is literally only mentioned once, simply as the son of the king of the wood elves. Also, to rehash the earlier discussion, i think pj changed legolas eyes in the hobbit to distinguish him from from the silvan elves of mirkwood, as thranduil and his son legolas are both of the sindar sindarin. Legolas the one wiki to rule them all fandom lotr wiki.
Bloom reprised his role as legolas in jacksons 20 release the hobbit. Legolas, saruman, frodo and galadriel do not appear in the hobbit. The top 10 things you may not know about legolas the elf. Thranduil, legolas father, was definitely blond, as he is the elven king of mirkwood in the hobbit. As tolkien later established in the rings books, legolas is the son of the elvenking thranduil, who is in the hobbit novel, and since elves are. Legolas s eye color the hobbit, the lord of the rings. I was not a big fan of the lord of the rings movies, but this second hobbit movie changed my mind and i went back to rewatch the lord because the desolation of smaug was so awesome. So old that almost i feel young again, as i have not felt since i journeyed with you children. Since the movie release of the hobbit, legolas has only become more popular. Legolas greenleaf thorin oakenshield works archive of. Legolas orlando bloom the hobbit movie the hobbit production more than a decade has now passed since the filming of the original lord of the rings series, however, orlando bloom has the task of having to look younger in his role of legolas. In the animated version of the hobbit, their roles are relatively minor compared to the book and have few lines. Why does legolas seem so different in the hobbit movies. Tauriel is not a character in the book, the hobbit.
However, she does appear in the feature film version of the hobbit which was directed by peter jackson and released between 2012 and 2014. Legolas funny legolas and thranduil legolas father hobbit funny fellowship of the ring lord of the rings j. Mostly for females, however those who are male can take it, but if you get certian results, it may be awkward. The hobbit tells a fantastic story of adventure, danger, friendship, and courage, and serves as a prequel to the even more immersive and epic book series, the lord of the rings. However, it can be speculated that legolas had an older brother, as his father thranduil, king of. They are also known as grey elves and were kind of treated like nobles by the lesser elves. Orlando bloom talks about being younger legolas the. They are just stories that i like and dont want to lose track of. Orlando bloom might be back to reprise his role as legolas in a role that would be more than a cameo. The reason why sometimes legolas had brown eyes in lotr trilogy is because they had forgotten to put the contacts in sometimes.
Let me know in the comments click the link to purchase some amazing marvel, anime and memes clothing. Despite being written over 60 years ago, the messages in the books and the films are as pertinent today. Legolas will try to hide the true from his father, even if that means to gain his eternal hate, while thranduil will try to find it and do whatever it takes to save his son once his burst of rage is over. At the beginning of the lotr filming orlando bloom was 22 years old, a young man full of energy. Lets go way overboard on cgi and turn legolas into a jedi. Legolas brought elves from the woodland realm to ithilien, and the land that had fallen under the shadow of mordor became green again under their care. Legolas was the prince of the woodland realm of mirkwood. Although legolas does not appear anywhere in the novel the hobbit, he has a significant role as the son of the elven king thranduil within their mirkwood realm. Hence the glowing spirit motif appears to be a characteristic of enhanced. However, if you remember the manners and habits of the happygolucky woodelves in the hobbit, even taking into account the change in writing style, the character of legolas in lotr sounds much more a woodelf in temperament than he does the wise, grave, and sorrowladen lords and loremasters of the sindar and highelves fighting the long. He finds so much more than just a name among the dunedain though, including friendship, trust and peace at last. There was an interesting discussion which played out quite nicely, i think, about the fatherson dynamic between legolas and thranduil. The hobbit and the lord of the rings this category includes everything related to j. In the two towers, aragorn tells eowyn that he is 87 years old and the hobbit trilogy occurred 60 years prior.
There are also some stories that either dont mention legolas at all or focus on him. Similarly thranduil character, the elvenking in the hobbit book in lotr is retconned to be given name and son legolas as those elements are not mentioned in hobbit proper narrative, and the version of him coming to start his kingdom from west is only drafted in appendices. His handsome features and legolas coolness, so to speak, as depicted in the film, have led to the character becoming an. To make the book into three films, the writers added legolas into the story to better bind the two movie trilogies together. On a side note,the hobbit films follows a shorter and more condensed timeline which actually makes aragorn older than in the books. Even though legolas did not appear in tolkiens book the hobbit, he is featured prominently in the film the hobbit. No, legolas does not appear in the original text of the hobbit, even though thorins company does go through mirkwood and meet the woodelves and their king. Why legolas belongs in the hobbit the silver petticoat.
The hobbit trilogy is the best trilogy i have seen since the original star wars. Tolkiens the hobbit, as are many other characters in both the lord of the rings and the hobbit movies. Orlando bloom filming a scene as legolas for the hobbit. At least it does when projected in 3d, at the 48 frames per second rate known as highframe rate, or hfr that jackson intends as the preferred format. This does not goes towards both the films and the books. They werent in the books which i hate, but at the same time it makes sense that legolas was in the movie because his father was. See more ideas about legolas, legolas and thranduil and thranduil. Tauriel is a character created by peter jackson specifically for his film adaptation of j. But legolas always heard the call of the sea, and in the year 120 of the fourth age, after the death of. Characters that have appeared in the hobbit and the lord.
Well, youre not alone in thinking that this archer from mirkwood forest puts the sin in sindarin elf. Legolas snorted, and in front of them, merrys posture straightened and his shoulders began to shake. They are also known as grey elves and were kind of. Do the ghosts fight with aragorn on the pellenor fields. Legolas is one of the more popular characters to come out of the lord of the rings. See more ideas about legolas, the hobbit and lord of the rings. So during the events of peter jacksons the hobbit, aragorn is actually around the age of 27. The desolation of smaug movie posters from movie poster shop. What killed legolas in the 2nd and 3rd movies for me were the completely ridiculous ninja style fight scenes. The conversation, lighthearted as it is, is characteristic of the. Orlando bloom on the return of legolas in the hobbit and how. The horse stars of the lord of the rings trilogy lord of. Unfortunately, that is just the way movie making goes.
Legolas is not recorded as having any siblings in the books. Tolkien wrote the books in response to the horrors he saw during the first world war. Orlando bloom says goodbye to legolas in the hobbit. The character does not appear in the original book, but was created by peter jackson, philippa boyens and fran walsh as an expansion of material adapted from the book, and first appears in the second and third films in that trilogy, the hobbit. He is a sindarin elf of the woodland realm and one of the nine members of the fellowship who set off to destroy the one ring commentators have noted that legolas serves as a typical elf in the story, demonstrating morethanhuman abilities such as seeing further than anyone. Unfortunately, the hobbit movie had happened almost 20 years later than the lord of the rings. That legolas might have fallen in love with a silvan elf does not contradict anything.
Not that aragorn cant do these things, but legolas is the elf of the fellowship. Because there arent enough of these out there, and i love legolas. In the hobbit films, director peter jackson expanded on legolas role, dropping a few hints about his mysterious backstory and his mother. Tauriel is a fictional character from peter jacksons feature film adaptation of j. Lotr got the balance just right to convey the magical essence of his agility and battle prowess, whereas in the hobbit, it was just like. Are legolas greenleaf and tauriel from the hobbit brother and. The british actor is reprising his role from the other peter jackson trilogy, the lord of the rings, and this is the last film in which audiences will see him wearing the now famous long blonde hair. After the battle of five armies, legolas went north in search of the young ranger known as strider. I think the lighter eyes are especially light this time around just to emphasize the distinct. Martin freeman is amazing as bilb and richard armitage does a great job as thorin.
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