Did 🧝Legolas fight in the ⚔️Battle of Five Armies?

[Maeglin]

I don't have HOME myself, so now I ask everyone the same question as you.

 

[Theoden]

I think he might have been, but it does not matter because he had nothing to do with the Hobbit anyway... just his stuck up dad.

-me

 

[Popqueen62]

Since

since he only mentioned legolas in the fellowship of the ring, and tolkien didn't say that he did fight in the battle, then tolkien didn't think about it, so there is no accurate answer to your question, since he is not alive anymore.

 

[Mindy_O_Lluin]

I would assume he did, since he is immortal, and a wood elf of Mirkwood, and those elves did go to that War only 80 years before. Why would HE have stayed at home, except maybe to guard the stores of wine in the dungeons, and a stray dwarf or so? In fact that has to be the basis of Gimli and Legolas' initial dislike for each other. After all Gloin was one of the Dwarves unjustly held there for quite a few weeks.

 

[Anamatar IV]

i dont see why he wouldnt. Theres lots of proof in the books that the kings didnt mind sending their sons to war so why whould he keep legolas behind. Infact-I bet Legolas was one of them drunken elves!

 

[Confusticated]

Originally posted by Theoden
I think he might have been, but it does not matter because he had nothing to do with the Hobbit anyway... just his stuck up dad.
-me

LOL! I just thought of something: Anything think that Thranduil and Thingol are alot alike?..Just wondering..

Originally Posted by AnamatarInfact-I bet Legolas was one of them drunken elves!

I doubt he was any of the servant type elves mentioned in The Hobbit, but he was probably out in the woods running around drunk in the starlight...

 

[CirdanLinweilin]

Methinks PJ snooped a bit around this forum, and came across this very post.

Now that The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies was released to the masses, what does everyone think now that Legolas, (at least in the cinematic adaptation) has fought in the Battle?

I'm anxious to know.

CL

 

[BalrogRingDestroyer]

Re: no!!





I think they would have both fought if he was OLD enough. All of Elendil's sons fought. All of the high eloves sons like Maedhros, Fingolfin and Turgon fought.

It wasn't quite like that, if you recall. Originally it was just them wanting (and I actually agree with Thorin in this regard of his refusal to go along with them. A lot of good they did him continuing to run away when they begged for help three times, locking them in the brig, and then demanding a share of the treasure that they definitely didn't help to win!) to get some treasure from Thorin. Hence Thrandil or whatever his name was wasn't expecting to fight the Goblins of the Misty Mountains and the Grey Mountains. He was hoping to talk down a stubborn dwarf named Thorin Oakenshield. I doubt he even knew about Dain coming until Bilbo told him, let alone the goblins.

It wasn't like he expected to die so why shouldn't Legolas have been there as an ambassador from Mirkwood?