he is my ♛ but he does not command my heart

legolas and Hobbit children.

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Legolases

Elrond and Galadriel were very subtle with their ownership of Great Rings but Thranduil would have waved his hand around constantly like he just got engaged. 

started reading The Two Towers

Legolas by 加班狂魔桃花粥

arwen undómiel, the fellowship of the ring

Thranduil by 加班狂魔桃花粥

Thranduil & Legolas  by 芳賀

All of the battles in Lord of the Rings are so funny. Everyone looks gross and oily. Visibly covered in dirt. Probably could be tested for new strands of bacteria. Then there’s Legolas. Hair perfect and silky. Clothes impeccable. He probably smells like flowers or honey. What an inspiration.

He was as tall as a young tree, lithe, immensely strong, able swiftly to draw a great war-bow and shoot down a Nazgûl, endowed with the tremendous vitality of Elvish bodies, so hard and resistant to hurt that he went only in light shoes over rock or through snow, the most tireless of all the Fellowship.

for Marleena ♡

So it’s been established that the Woodland Realm is an isolated kingdom. Except it’s also been established that Mirkwood trades and interacts with Dale and Laketown regularly. This leads me to believe that the Woodland Realm and the Sylvan elves aren’t isolated from the rest of the world, they’re isolated from other elves who would dare not step foot into Mirkwood.

So this means that the Sylvan elves (plus Thranduil and Legolas by extension) have mannerisms and phrases with a distinct mannish flair rather than a traditionally elvish one since that is the culture they would be most influenced by. (Which in my HC means that ways of speaking are much more blunt and straightforward. They are also more physical in showing their affection towards others)

So please imagine elves from Rivendell and Lothlorien visiting the newly healed Greenwood in the 4th Age and just getting the cultural shock of a lifetime:

Celeborn: Greetings, King Thranduil Oropherion, Kin of my kin. I see the sun has smiled upon the leaves of Eryn Lasgalen and the fruit shall be bountiful once more. *places his hand on his chest reverently*

Thranduil, desperately trying to remember Noldor elven greeting customs: …….and a howdy to you too. *awkwardly waves*

by小枣子