Lord of the Rings TV series gets multi-season order at Amazon

[Boromir88]

Well drat. (The news about Shippey leaving the project.)

Originally Posted by Kuruharan

Since they are elves, it could be argued that they might have been alive in the Second Age...

Well, actually my reading of the copyright is it's much stricter than that.

Yes, they could make the argument, they're Elves and therefor 'could' be alive in the 2nd Age. But my understanding is since Legolas and Haldir don't appear in the canon of the 2nd Age material at all, so they can't be added in. Elrond and Galadriel do are specifically mentioned to be involved in the 2nd age events, but not Legolas.

Although, they can invent new characters. I don't think there would be any stopping to just cast Orlando Bloom as "Les-galad" the son of Gil-galad.