The Lord of the Rings has a lot of impressive characters and races. The story hinged around the Felloꦜwship of the Ring: nine companions who were working together to throw the One Ring into the fires of Mount Doom. Of those nine companions, there is one who seems to be stronger in the rest (no, it's not Gandalf). That would be Legolas✅.

Legolas is the Prince of Mirkwood and one of the great Elves of Middle-earth. He carries around a bow and arrow as well as twin daggers that help him♛ to hunt down orcs, goblins, and trolls with extreme prejudice. Ready to see the One Ring destroyed and Aragorn on top of the throne of Minas Tirith, he was willing to give his life for the cause.

Legolas happens to be one of the strongest members of the Fellowship of the Ring. His aim with a bow and arrow is true and never misses. He can walk on chains𝔉, flip over horses, and even take down a Mumakil all by himself. There seems to be nothing that this Elf Prince can't do, and that's why many people love him (that and he's played by Orlando Bloom in the films).

However, a closer examination of Legolas Greenleaf reveals that his character doesn't make a lot of sense. Whether it be how he moves, how good of a shot he is, and🎶 the small bits of dialogue peppered throughout the trilogy, here are 20 things about Legolas Greenleaf that make no sense.

20 Never Runs Out Of Aꦛrrows

Legolas is one of the best archers in all of Middle-earth. Because of this, he is constantly shown shooting down orcs and trolls throughout The Lord of the Rings. However, it seems that he ne🥃ver runs out of arrows no matter how many shots he fires.

He could go through an entire battle and end over 50 Uruk-Hai and have nothing more than a tiny quiver on his back. It's ridiculous to think that he never ran out of arrows. In The Hobbit, he did run out of arrows once, so at least there's a sense of self-awareness that Peter Jackson used in that trilogy🌼.

19 ⛦ Running On Falling Roc𓂃ks

Elves have always been these whimsical characters who can bend the laws𝓡 of physics a little bit. After all, they don't leave footprints in the snow. However, at some point, there are things that even Elves shouldn't be able to do. Yet, Legolas managed to make the impossible possible.

In Battle of the Five Armies, Legolas was fighting Bolg in a duel to the end. The brid𒈔ge they were fighting on broke under the Prince of Mirkwood. Instead of falling with the rocks, he ran on the ▨falling rocks back up to safe ground. Talk about fake.

18 💯 Never Taking A Hit 🐓

This is something that you don't quite realize until you start thinking about The Lord of the Rings as a whole. In the entire film trilogy, Legolas ne💯ver takes a hit. He always has great looking hair and flawless skin. He can tackle several enemies at once and never break a sweat.

What makes this even weirder is that Legolas took a hit from Bolg in The Desolation of Smaug. He treats it like a big deal, as if it took years for him to finally take some damage, despite the fact that The Lord of the Rings didn't occur until after the events of The Hobbit.

17 ꦓ Suddenly Being Friends With Gimli

Elves and Dwarves in Middle-earth don't like each other very much, which is why it was such a big deal in The Lord of the Rings novels that Legolas and Gimli becameꦿ such good friends. However, the books gave e♎nough time to see their relationship develop from animosity to a mutual respect.

In the movies, that same development doesn't quite take place. We leave The Fellowship of the Ring where Legolas, Aragorn, and Gimli are working together to The Two Towers where Lego𝐆las is willing to threaten a Rohirrim Captain just to keep ♔Gimli alive. It's a bit of a jarring transition.

16 𝄹 ☂ Love Triangle

Legolas was always an interesting character. Not having many lines and being more of a man of action, there was a level of mystery that he brought to the table. It's what made him more popular. However, The Hobbit trilogy decided to give him more depth and backstor♎y that hindered rather than helped him.

If you're wondering what such a powerful Elf Prince would've done before The Lord of the Rings, a love triangle was certainly at the bottom of ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚthe list. Unfortunately, that's what Peter Jackson did. Legolas was caught up in a love triangle between another Elf and a Dwarf.

15 𓄧 Older In The Past

When The Hobbit trilogy has filmed around a decade after The Lord of the Rings with a few actors returning to reprise their roles, we knew going on that some of them would look strangely older despite🐷 the series being a prequel. Among ಌthem was Orlando Bloom, who was asked to reprise his role as Legolas.

It's quite obvious that the actor is much older in The Hobbit, but it's made much more noticeable by the fact that he is in the films a lot. He sounds, looks, and acts much older than he does in The Lord of the Rings.

14 💛 Flipping Onto A Horse

Legolas was always the one to do cool stunts in The Lord of the Rings. However, some of them were noticeably fake and hard to believe. Take one his moments in The Two Towers f💞or example. A party of Warg Riders was at🌸tacking the Rohan refugees, so a battle ensued.

Legolas stood on a hill firing arrows until Gimli came with a horse. He then g🌸rabbed on the horse's chest and flipped all the way around it until he was riding the horse. There is no practical way that stunt could've been pulled off and it defies the laws of physics.

13 His First And Last Na🥂me

Most people who watched The Lord of the Rings only know Legolas as just that: an Elf Prince with only one name. People who watched The Hobbit films or read the LOTR books would know that's not true. He actually has a fir🦂st and last name: Legolas Greenleaf.

The issue with this is that Legolas is, in essence, an Elvish word that translates to "green leaf." Because of this, Legolas has the same first and last name෴ but only in different languages. We knew Thranduil was kind of a bad dad, but we didn't know that he was that bad.

12 Searching For Strid꧅er 😼

People who watch The Hobbit know that there are a lot of gratuitous references to The Lord of the Rings that never really pay off. One of the worst cases of this was in Battle of the Five Armies, when Thranduil tells Legolas about a Dunedain Ranger named Strider. He encourages his son to t🀅hen go find this ranger.

The problem is that The Hobbit took place decades before The Lord of the Rings. Aragorn would've only been a child at the time, which is much too young for him🎃 to be known by the King of Mirkwood. It's a serious oversight.

11 The Hobbit Sec🐼ondar🐬y Character

When it was announced that Legolas would be returning for The Hobbit, it makes a lot of sense. Had The Hobbit been written after The Lord of the Rings, the Dwarves of Erebor probably would've crossed paths with the Elf Prince. However, The Hobbit takes it to an entirely new level.

Legolas, starting with his appearance in The Desolation of Smaug, has his own side plot. He doesn't really have a character arc, just an excuse to show him to all kinds of (mostly fake) stunts and fire a bunch of arrows. He's almost in those movies more than in The Lord of the Rings.