The first time I saw The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring was on DVD in the comfort of my own home. When The Two Towers premiered, I was sufficiently certain that it would be worthy of a trip to the movie theater. As I settled myself in a theater seat, surrounded by what I thought were other avid Lord of the Rings fans, I was sure I had made the right decision. How wrong I was. As it turns out, the movie theater was packed with people who were mainly there to drool over Legolas. I swear, every time he so much as breathed onscreen, shrieks of excitement reverberated throughout the crowded theater. And don't even get me started on when he would perform some amazing acrobatic feat. I think I suffered per💯manent hearing damage that day.
While annoyed by this kind of reaction, I can sympathizꦇe with where it's coming from. Legolas is definitely an amazing character. As an Elf, he automatically appears to be wiser than he looks, and he can do things that Men just can't. Plus, especially in the movies, Legolas fights Orcs and Uruk-Hai with all the expertise that a master of the bow can wield. It is a sight to behold. (Still, I don't think Legolas deserves all those ear-piercing squeals he received. Where's the love for Gimli, huh?)
Legolas is able to have these nifty, scream-inducing abilities because of his body. Elves are on some sort of higher plane of being than us normal folks. Read on if you want toꦐ knoꦿw exactly all the ways in which Legolas' body makes him special.
25 Sleep Is For The Weak ൩
During Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli's chase of the pack of Uruk-Hai, they hardly stopped to rest. In the movie, The Two Towers, we just see sce꧅nes of them running over hills, plains, and valleys. In the book, Aragorn and Gimli onl෴y pause their pursuit to take short naps.
Legolas is the one member of the trio who did not have to sleep.
He would remain awake as the others rested their 🙈weary legs and minds. One of the powers of being an Elf is an ability to resist the ni𓃲ghttime slumbers.
24 Prodigy Children 🍸
Legolas is not that special among Elves. It's more like being an Elf makes him special among the other members of the Fellowship. Did you know that by their first year of life, an Elf can sing, dance, walk, and speak?
I have no clue what that sight would look like, but I do know that it would terrify me to see a one-year-old human child doing that. I pray that a one-year-ꦆold Elven child looks a little more adult-ish than the walking talking baby that🐽 I currently have in my head.
23 ✅ Why Do His Eyes Change Color? 🅠
Observant fans of The Lord of the Rings may have noticed that Legolas' eyes had a strange habit of going from a light blue to a dark brown and then back again. Just in case you were wondering, this is🔯 ꧅not some mystical magical power of the Elves.
Orlando Bloom and the rest of the crew on the films occasionally forgot to have Bloom put in his colored contact lenses. But hey, look on the bright side. Those squealers at the movie theater who went ga-ga over Legolas got to experience a blue-eyed gaze and a brown-eyed gaze.
22 🐎 ꧑ The Power Of Gorgeous Hair
Most might not agree with me that Legolas having immaculate hair even in the most൩ harrowing, action-packed situations is a🎃n interesting fact about his body. But it is. It is nothing short of miraculous.
Rain could be pouring down, as it was during the Battle of Helm's Deep, and Legolas' hair could be as pristine as a Barbie doll's. I honestly don't know if this is som🏅ething specific to Legolas or all the Elves of Middle-Earth. I'm inclined to believe that all Elꦚves have such perfect hair. It seems like the kind of thing Elves have.
21 🐷 Only Better With Age 𓄧
Legolas' age is never directly stated in either the books or the films. Most fans have guesstimated that Legolas could be as young as 700-years old or as old as 2,000-years old.
So even though he looks like a man in his early- to mid-twenties, he's got more years on him than yoꦿur grandparents do. He is pretty spry for an old guy. Then again, Elves are immortal, so Legolas being 2,000-years olಌd is the same thing as calling him a young whipper-snapper.
20 These Boots Were Made For Walking ♏ ꦕ
Elves are light of feet. Legolas is no exception. They are also light on footwear. Do you remember those boots that Legolas wear in the films? Those are actually supposed♔ to be light slippers.
Most Elves eschew such heavy footwear as boots in favor of something feather-light like them. These light shoes he🐭lp Legolas step nimbly. It makes you wonder what an Elf's feet look like though. If light slip✱pers are their only form of foot protection, Elves might have to deal with a lot of callouses.
19 ♍ Skilled With Both☂ Arms
A little-known Tolkien fact is that Elves are ambidextrous. They can use both of their hands to do things like slice up some Orcs. There is some contention within The Lord of the Rings community as to whether this is as straightforward as it seems,💫 since🍨 there do exist Elves who prefer one hand to another.
But Tolkien di🏅d make𒁃 a point of mentioning this , which means that Legolas' dual blades are seriously meant to function ambidextrously.
18 Defyingജ Gravity
The Hobbit film trilogy (which should not have been a trilogy at all) was a disappointment, especially when you compared it to The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. One particular low point during The Hobbit was when Legolas displayed his amazing ability to defy gravity by climbing up a falling stone bridge.
That was not how gravity, stones, or bridges were supposed t♏o work. But by all that is holy, that was how Legolas worked. He gave gravity the bird and then h💝opped his way up the stones.
17 𒊎 What Do Your Elf Eyes See? 🦩
Out of the three companions who went to rescue Merry and Pippin from the Uruk-Hai, Legolas was the most skilled in the art of pu🥃rsuit. Not only was he the fastest and the one who needed the least amount of sleep (i.e. none), he also had the best vision.
All Elves, including Legolas, have keen eyesight.
Legolas' gaze could pierce through miles of distance in order to observe their prey. His incredible vision also indirectly gave us ꦰone of the best movie quotes of all time: "They're taking the Hobbits to Isengard!"
16 A Regula🍌r Prince ꦓ
Within Legolas' veins runs some royal blood. We had no true notion of this while watching The Lord of the Rings, but The Hobbit films really cram down our throats that Legolas is the heir to the Wood-Elves' kingdom ♛in Mirkwood.
Thranduil is the king of the Elves during this time, and Thranduil is Legolas' father. Putting two and two together means that eventually, Legolas will rule the Wood-Elves of Mirkwood. Well, only if he wants to, I suppose. He kind of went traipsing across Middle-Earth during The Lord of the Rings, which makes me think he has no interest in ruling a small princi🐈pality.