The Complete Travels of Legolas | Tolkien Explained

Today, we track the entire life of Legolas: living in Mirkwood, his adventures as a member of the Fellowship, and his actions after the Return of the King. Known for his fighting abilities and great senses, he comes to befriend the unlikeliest of companions - Gimli the Dwarf. We will also cover his likely age as we look at his actions in the books. Just as notable as his deeds during The Lord of the Rings are his actions after Sauron's fall, as he helps rebuild Minas Tirith and ultimately sails west with his best friend.

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Legolas Fighting - 1oshuart
Red Sunrise - Janka Lateckova
Legolas - Liga Kjavina
Young Legolas - Anna Lee
Bilbo and Spiders - Marc Daniel Goecke
Legolas - WETA
The Battle Under the Mountain - Matt Stewart
The Woodland Realm - Saiga Tokihito
Elves - Tinyyang
The Council of Elrond - Alan Lee
The Fellowship in Hollin - Donato Giancola
Celebrimbor and Annatar - WETA
I'll go to find the Sun! - Peter Xavier Price
Legolas - Lelpel
Caradhras (inktober) - Justyna Rerak
Nine Walkers - Abe Papakhian
Forty-Two - Matthew Stewart
Strider - CK Goksoy
Boromir - Donato GIancola
Legolas - Gellihana
The Fellowship - George Doutsiopoulos
Warg Attack on the Fellowship - Igor Kordej
Fellowship in Hollin - The Brothers Hildebrandt
Warg Attack on the the Fellowship - Gerald Walker
Pack of Wargs - Lukasz Jaskolski
Legolas - Gellihana
Moria - Alan Lee
Flame of Udun - Manuel Castanon
The Balrogs of Morgoth - Thylacinee
Frodo and Haldir in Lothlorien - Ted Nasmith
Crossing Nimrodel - Anke Eissmann
The Falls of Nimrodel - Julian Bauer
Lothlorien - The Brothers Hildebrandt
Atop Cerin Amroth - Anke Eissmann
The Gifts of Galadriel - Kuliszu
Legolas Shoots the Fell Beast - Anke Eissmann
Legolas - Paul Tobin - WETA
Ambush at the Great River - Olanda Fong-Surdenas
Legolas Aims for the Fell Beast - Peet
Legolas - Daniel Pilla
The Plains of Rohan - Alan Lee
Awaiting the RIders of Rohan - Peter Xavier Price
Legolas and Gimli at Helm's Deep - John Howe
The Door of the Dead - Anke Eissmann
Gandalf Returns - Ted Nasmith
The Stranger in the Forest - Ted Nasmith
Approaching Edoras - Ted Nasmith
Young Legolas and Thranduil - Ling Xiang Xia
Legolas - Tjana Jankovic
The White Rider - Alan Lee
Across Middle-earth - Ralph Damiani
Edoras - Allrich Art
Legolas in Mirkwood - Donato Giancola
Sebastian Giacobino - Legolas and Gimli
Helm's Deep - John Howe
Unlikely Friendship - Aleksander Karcz
The Glittering Caves of Aglarond - Ted Nasmith
Fangorn - Govanni Pullano
Gimli and Legolas - Anke Eissmann
Pelargir - Aegeri
Legolas Comes to the Sea - Jef Murray
Army of the Dead - Angus McBride
Battle of the Black Gate - Ted Nasmith
Legolas - Kinko White
Legolas and Gimli - Peter Xavier Price
Elessar Coronation - Tim Hildebrandt
Journey Home - Anna Lee
Minas Tirith - Ludovic Bourgeois
Elven Cloak - Rob Alexander
The Gates of Minas Tirith - Eric Faure-Brac
Legolas and Gimli Depart - Turner Mohan
Legolas and Gimli Reach the Shores of Valinor - Ted Nasmith

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[Daggerfall]

What I love the most about these NotR videos is the use of the maps. It's nice having a visual aid that shows which direction everyone went when the Fellowship split up and how they ended up where.

[xianxiii]

Legolas is the reason I always play an Elf archer in any game that allows it. He is godly but humble, loyal to his friends and lethal to his enemies. A true hero in my eyes.

[franav]

Really the friendship between legolas and Gimli always makes my tears go down, its so beautiful

[PP]

So Galadriel’s prediction essentially meant that when he went to the sea, his heart would be there instead of the forest. The sea began to “call” to him, in a sense. Fitting, since the Sylvan Elves are Teleri.

[untruelie]

It's perhaps worth mentioning that the reason for Legolas' admiration of the sea is that (according to the "Ainulindale") the music of the Ainur can still be heard in the sound of the seawaves. All elves are captivated by this sound and are never able to forget it.

[Nexaes]

Sir you have one thing missing. Legolas also keeps his word and visit glittering caves with Gimli. Legolas was left speechless after visiting them, one of the few times that a dwarf has bested an elf with words...

[Thepanchoforreal]

The illustration at 4:01 ended me forever. I will never recover.

[crazykhespar]

Legolas and Gimli having such a pure friendship is really beautiful and Im glad it was a component of the story. Damn.

[mgtogno]

I feel like legolas was very old, but he was also very sheltered by his father in Mirkwood, once his father tells legolas to go into the fellowship Legolas always seemed mesmerize by the travels and places he could visit, he in fact saw everything in middle earth with Gimli and then he travel to the seas to see other lands. Legolas was a great character, he was very wise, capable and impressive, but he was always humble and kind to everyone. I really love how he looked at life and at all things as if it was the first time.

[atv]

I really wish Jackson would’ve filmed the scenes of the Fellowship in Eregion; it has potential to show ruined elven structures, and shed a bit more history on Sauron and Elves to the movie audience, AND kick ass with the Warg Attacks!

[joshbishop]

The story of Gimli and Legolas's friendship is probably one of my favorites in all of LoTR, by far.

[monitor-mindtheover-void]

Gimli deserves a separate video for himself.

[charlieg]

Peter Jackson got a lot of things wrong in my opinion. But the moment in Moria when Legolas realizes that a Balrog is coming, and the camera pauses on him and you see that moment of fear...you know that Jackson understood the gravity of that moment in the book. It is the single best shot of the entire trilogy for me.

[jimmyz]

I’m 49 yrs old, read all the books and watched all the films since Hanna Barbera. After watching this, I don’t know why I’m

[cirion]

Galadriels words to Legolas remind me of the passage in the silmarillion that those that hear the musicof Ulmo “hear it ever in their hearts, and longing for the sea never leaves them again”

[justinremier]

Legolas is hands down one of the greatest characters ever created. And he’s my favorite and then Aragorn

[dmgd]

As a kid my friends and I thought Legolas's arrow in his quiver were magical since they never got finished and remained a steady number through the trilogy

[gerdz]

That story telling and choice of music made me shed a tear. What a wonderful of friendship of Legolas and Gimli.

[sniful]

You know a true lord of the rings fan when they pronounce Celebrimbor Kelebrimbor and not Selebrimbor