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Birdland · 12-08-2002, 08:30 PM

Tolkien neglected Legolas' branch of the family terribly, it seems. There is some contradictions between the appendix of LoTR and Tolkien's other writings in Unfinished Tales.

It has been stated that Thranduil was the son of Oropher, the original King of Greenwood the Great, who was slain at the Battle of the Last Alliance. I had always believed that Thranduil was there with his father as well, and it was after Oropher's death that he became the King of The Greenwood, (later Mirkwood.)

There was a wonderful little snippet in Unfinished Tales, tellling of Oropher's hasty, ill-equipped charge against the gates of Mordor, his death, and how the experience scarred Thranduil for his long life. It's on pages 258-259 of Unfinished Tales

[ December 08, 2002: Message edited by: Birdland ]

12-08-2002, 08:30 PM	#4
Birdland Ghastly Neekerbreeker Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: the banks of the mighty Scioto Posts: 1,751	Tolkien neglected Legolas' branch of the family terribly, it seems. There is some contradictions between the appendix of LoTR and Tolkien's other writings in Unfinished Tales. It has been stated that Thranduil was the son of Oropher, the original King of Greenwood the Great, who was slain at the Battle of the Last Alliance. I had always believed that Thranduil was there with his father as well, and it was after Oropher's death that he became the King of The Greenwood, (later Mirkwood.) There was a wonderful little snippet in Unfinished Tales, tellling of Oropher's hasty, ill-equipped charge against the gates of Mordor, his death, and how the experience scarred Thranduil for his long life. It's on pages 258-259 of Unfinished Tales [ December 08, 2002: Message edited by: Birdland ]