legolas's eye color - Page 3

Linarryl · 10-19-2002, 09:17 AM

His eyes are brown.

*GO LEGOLAS!*

***Sister Golden Hair*** · 10-19-2002, 05:33 PM

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Originally posted by Linarryl
His eyes are brown.

*GO LEGOLAS!*

Highly unlikely.

Gwaimir Windgem · 02-04-2003, 05:46 PM

I read somewhere that it says in the Appendices that the Sindar have dark hair, but I can't find it. Where is it? Is it even in there?

Legolas_Frodo_Aragorn · 02-04-2003, 06:39 PM

legolas' eyes are blue, i just think that he doesnt put them on in the movie too much

Gwaimir Windgem · 02-04-2003, 06:55 PM

I think they're probably grey, actually. Most eyes are; I think the Eldar had grey eyes.

Laurus Nobilis · 02-04-2003, 06:57 PM

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Originally posted by Gwaimir Windgem
I read somewhere that it says in the Appendices that the Sindar have dark hair, but I can't find it. Where is it? Is it even in there?

I have the exact same problem. *sigh* I was sure that Legolas should be dark-haired, considering he's Sindar; but I could never find that line again.

What puzzles me is that in The Hobbit Thranduil appears as a blond.

Shouldn't he be dark haired, too?

Gwaimir Windgem · 02-04-2003, 07:03 PM

Well, the Hobbit was written as a children's book. He may have not been as careful with it as he could have been.

***azalea*** · 02-04-2003, 10:17 PM

I don't know about Sindarins, but from what I read in other threads, although Thranduil was blond, we don't know anything about Legolas' mother, so she could have been anything, and thus we don't know her hair color, so that clouds the issue of Legolas' hair color.

Gwaimir Windgem · 02-04-2003, 10:41 PM

Except a Vanya.

Lanelf · 02-05-2003, 01:24 AM

I think the idea of Legolas' eyes being brown was started from the movies. Probably just didn't bother putting his contacts in one day and it slipped into the film.
Lanelf.

Wayfarer · 02-05-2003, 02:19 AM

One of the interesting things about tolkien is he never makes a big issue about appearences.

Almost all modern fantasy authors seem to think that hair and eye color are big things that need to be mentioned constantly. Not tolkien.

Evenstar1400 · 02-05-2003, 06:24 PM

maybe legolas was an albino!

but thats probibly not the case

Narsil's Master · 02-07-2003, 08:28 PM

i could care less about his eye color but there green

BeardofPants · 11-23-2004, 08:56 PM

*bump* And this is what we were debating in the height of the movie obsession...

Attalus · 11-23-2004, 10:06 PM

Wayfarer makes an interesting point. Except for Hobbits, Wizards, and, interestingly, Ents, JRRT allowed each reader to form their own mental picture of the characters.

**Nurvingiel** · 11-30-2004, 09:49 PM

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Originally Posted by BeardofPants

*bump* And this is what we were debating in the height of the movie obsession...

And I posted here!

I wonder why I said I picture him with blue eyes. As Tolkien left a lot of mental images entirely up to us, mine tends to be fluid. I'm now picturing a grey-eyed, dark haired Legolas... and I'm only posting again because it's three in the morning. Another time, and I would be much less spammy!

Elemmírë · 11-30-2004, 09:55 PM

Sad, Boppy. Very sad.

I don't know, Attalus, Tolkien seems to randomly mention appearances... Elrond seemed pretty well described... And Glorfindel to a degree, and several other Elves (though not Legolas

). Quite a few in the House of Finwe I've heard are described in the HoME...

Hi Nurv. I always pictured Legolas as grey eyed and dark haired. And then the movie came out and I changed that for about three years. But now my mental image is back to the way it was before. See! It's not always permanent!

galadriel · 12-06-2004, 09:21 PM

Tolkien never describes Legolas's eye color. There's a passage in the Appendices which describes Elves as dark-haired and grey-eyed, but I think this passage may have only been intended to describe the Noldorin Exiles. It seems possible that other Elves follow this pattern: after all, the people of Dol Amroth are thought to be descendants of an Elf of Lothlorien (probably Silvan), and are notable for having dark hair and grey eyes. I've always assumed Legolas followed the norm, simply because Tolkien never indicated otherwise. However, his father is golden-haired, so there's no definite answer.

Attalus · 12-07-2004, 11:23 AM

There is also the golden house of Fingon, of which Galadriel is such a prominent exemplar. I like your site, btw. I have always thought of her as grey-eyed.

tolkienfan · 12-10-2004, 02:01 AM

When I read the books I kind of pictured Legolas as having blondish-greyish hair and grey eyes. Maybe his eyes change colors (my sisters eyes do that sometimes, without contacts even)

02-04-2003, 05:46 PM	#43
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	I read somewhere that it says in the Appendices that the Sindar have dark hair, but I can't find it. Where is it? Is it even in there? __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

02-04-2003, 06:39 PM	#44
Legolas_Frodo_Aragorn The Elven Queen Of All Pyros Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Im like a little bug stuck in the lamp...never going anywhere Posts: 795	legolas' eyes are blue, i just think that he doesnt put them on in the movie too much __________________ Would you judge my future based on what i did in the past? Procrastinators Unite!!!.....tomorrrow.... Kids in backseats cause accidents...accidents in backseats cause kids As long as there are tests..there will be prayers in school

02-04-2003, 06:55 PM	#45
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	I think they're probably grey, actually. Most eyes are; I think the Eldar had grey eyes. __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

02-04-2003, 07:03 PM	#47
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	Well, the Hobbit was written as a children's book. He may have not been as careful with it as he could have been. __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

02-04-2003, 10:41 PM	#49
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	Except a Vanya. __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

10-19-2002, 09:17 AM	#41
Linarryl Elven Warrior Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 160	His eyes are brown. GO LEGOLAS!

02-04-2003, 10:17 PM	#48
*azalea* Long lost mooter Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Florida Posts: 3,342	I don't know about Sindarins, but from what I read in other threads, although Thranduil was blond, we don't know anything about Legolas' mother, so she could have been anything, and thus we don't know her hair color, so that clouds the issue of Legolas' hair color.

02-05-2003, 01:24 AM	#50
Lanelf Elven Warrior Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: The Second Drawer Down Posts: 407	I think the idea of Legolas' eyes being brown was started from the movies. Probably just didn't bother putting his contacts in one day and it slipped into the film. Lanelf. __________________ Hey, I'm back! resounding silence You didn't even notice I was gone, did you? Well, I'm back now anyway. Artemis Fowl must find Mulch Diggums! You'll never shut down the real Napster

02-05-2003, 02:19 AM	#51
Wayfarer The Insufferable Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 3,333	One of the interesting things about tolkien is he never makes a big issue about appearences. Almost all modern fantasy authors seem to think that hair and eye color are big things that need to be mentioned constantly. Not tolkien. __________________ Disgraced he may be, yet is not dethroned, and keeps the rags of lordship once he owned

02-05-2003, 06:24 PM	#52
Evenstar1400 Elven Warrior Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: In the inner depths of my lair. Posts: 421	maybe legolas was an albino! but thats probibly not the case __________________ Treebeard: Hmm, you look like hobbits, smell like hobbits, feel like hobbits and sound like hobbits. You must be orcs!

02-07-2003, 08:28 PM	#53
Narsil's Master Elven Warrior Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Indian,USA Posts: 109	i could care less about his eye color but there green __________________ naur an edraith amen, naur dan i ngaurhoth! well your on fire now. go team fencing!!!! fingolfin rox elven sox

11-23-2004, 08:56 PM	#54
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	bump And this is what we were debating in the height of the movie obsession... __________________ "Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords

11-23-2004, 10:06 PM	#55
Attalus Swan-Knight of Dol Amroth Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: On the Bay of Belfalas Posts: 1,125	Wayfarer makes an interesting point. Except for Hobbits, Wizards, and, interestingly, Ents, JRRT allowed each reader to form their own mental picture of the characters. __________________ "What song the Sirens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions are not beyond conjecture." - Sir Thomas Browne, Urn Burial.

11-30-2004, 09:55 PM	#57
Elemmírë avocatus diaboli Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Himring Posts: 1,582	Sad, Boppy. Very sad. I don't know, Attalus, Tolkien seems to randomly mention appearances... Elrond seemed pretty well described... And Glorfindel to a degree, and several other Elves (though not Legolas ). Quite a few in the House of Finwe I've heard are described in the HoME... Hi Nurv. I always pictured Legolas as grey eyed and dark haired. And then the movie came out and I changed that for about three years. But now my mental image is back to the way it was before. See! It's not always permanent! __________________ ~ I have heard the languages of apocalypse and now I shall embrace the silence ~ Neil Gaiman Last edited by Elemmírë : 11-30-2004 at 09:57 PM.

12-06-2004, 09:21 PM	#58
galadriel Elven Warrior Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: a castle made of clouds Posts: 459	Tolkien never describes Legolas's eye color. There's a passage in the Appendices which describes Elves as dark-haired and grey-eyed, but I think this passage may have only been intended to describe the Noldorin Exiles. It seems possible that other Elves follow this pattern: after all, the people of Dol Amroth are thought to be descendants of an Elf of Lothlorien (probably Silvan), and are notable for having dark hair and grey eyes. I've always assumed Legolas followed the norm, simply because Tolkien never indicated otherwise. However, his father is golden-haired, so there's no definite answer. __________________ Human kind cannot bear very much reality. dreamflower - for all things Lady Galadriel

12-07-2004, 11:23 AM	#59
Attalus Swan-Knight of Dol Amroth Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: On the Bay of Belfalas Posts: 1,125	There is also the golden house of Fingon, of which Galadriel is such a prominent exemplar. I like your site, btw. I have always thought of her as grey-eyed. __________________ "What song the Sirens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions are not beyond conjecture." - Sir Thomas Browne, Urn Burial.

12-10-2004, 02:01 AM	#60
tolkienfan Elf Lord Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: The Internet Posts: 803	When I read the books I kind of pictured Legolas as having blondish-greyish hair and grey eyes. Maybe his eyes change colors (my sisters eyes do that sometimes, without contacts even)

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