All things Elf and Elvish Discussion-Emphasis on the Character Legolas

I have a question, does anyone know how old Legolas is? i have heard anywhere from 4000 to 2961 yrs old , i am not quite sure which is right.

~~Lady Legolas~~

 

The Broken Sword was published in America in 1954, the same year that the Fellowship of the Ring was published in Great Briton. Anderson was born in 1926, so he was a generation younger than Tolkien, but he was definitely writing in the early fifties.

According to the note in the introduction to my copy of The Broken Sword:

Incidentally, readers of Professor Tolkien will be amused and possibly even startled to discover in these pages a couple of their old friends from Middle-earth, the dwarves Durin ? Anderson calls him ?Dyrin? ? and Dvalin. I hasten to assure you that this does not imply that Anderson ?borrowed? from the Tolkien trilogy. That would be impossible in fact ? unless Poul Anderson had access to a time machine ? for when Anderson wrote The Broken Sword, the first volume of the Lord of the Rings had yet to be printed, even in Great Briton.

The introduction goes on to touch on a few points where they coincided, how the names they shared are from the The Elder Edda, the Catalogue of Dwarves. Tolkien used the broken sword motif with Aragorn?s sword, Anduril.



SithLordMcClain: Elves are almost always treated as good people, though there are exceptions. In The Broken Sword, they?re only good in comparison to the trolls. There are good people among the elves in that book, but they?re not the most pleasant folk in the world. In the Dungeons and Dragons multiverse there is an offshoot race called the Drow, evil elves that live underground. And even in most stories where elves are good, they tend to be mildly to extremely xenophobic.

 

Humm, I did not know that.

Thank's Jon_Snow.

 

sorry for not bein here in a while, ive got a research paper to do on socialism bbak lata!

 

done with that stupid paper now off to the english research paper on 1984 and brave new world.

quick question anyone: how old is Legolas i have heard many different ages, maybe one of yall could set me straight

thanx!

~~Lady Legolas~~

 

It's a shame that Orlando Bloom wouldn't agree with anything we might have to say about Tolkien's elves, STACY-WAN_KENOBI.

He feels LOTR is unutterably dull. What would he know? It's only set him for life, paid all his bills etc. I suppose it'd be too much to expect him to have any gratitude or humanity towards it.

Anyway, just to point one thing out, Drow is the name of a race of elves - dark elves to be precise - featured in a series of novels by R.A. Salvatore(a series of spinoffs from Advanced Dungeons & Dragons). I think I'm right in saying that Salvatore wrote a Star Wars novel(possibly AotC).

Anyway, the drow inhabit an underground city called Menzoberanzen(sp?), and live in a fiercely competitive and fuedal scoiety in which Houses(the richer families) are constantly vying for power, and eliminating each other. The hero of the stories is a son of one of the powerful matriachs, a swordsman named Drizzt, who choses to escape the society of his kinfolk, when he realises how despicable it all is.

I've read two of them. Homeland is a truly excellent piece of work. I'd recomend it to anyone with a bent for fantasy. Exile has its moments. According to some, things go a bit off the boil after that, but I am not really in a position to comment.

Sorry for the slight, temporary departure from your topic there - just thought I'd fill you in on the drow business since you asked.

Normally service will be resumed.

 

no problem--the topic said all things elf and elvish--and drows are elves so they fit perfectly

thanx for the info

~~Lady Legolas~~

 

hey ya'll lets not let this die!!
lets post some more random facts and deliberate upon them

~~Lady Legolas~~