Aragorn: I am Aragorn, son of Arathorn.
Aragorn: This is Gimli, son of Gloin
Aragorn: And this is Legolas…
Legolas: he’s fucking forgotten my dad’s name
Aragorn: …of the woodland realm
Legolas: oh my god
- Tagged
- and feels kind of like the putting out of a political feeler
- and hates knowing it
- and Thranduil who also knows it
- and who looks deeply uncomfortable when Haldir addresses him as Thranduilion
- because he's just realized how badly he's fucked things up between them
- because it's tantamount to defying his father's edict
- but let's talk about Legolas who after the events of the Hobbit movies can't go home
- can't
- just - elven politics in the Third Age
- Legolas
- Legolas who exiles himself because he defied his father the King in front of a lot of people
- Legolas who knows that he can't undermine his father's rule by returning
- Legolas who no longer admits to being the son of Thranduil because he's effectively officially been disowned
- like possibly Celeborn or Galadriel would be open to putting Legolas on the throne of Mirkwood
- lotr
- not just won't
- this is funny ok
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30, She/her. Used to be DreamingPagan a long time back. Multi-fandom, mostly Black Sails these days but with a lot of Tolkien and funny things interspersed. Complete language and history nerd - be warned. I write fic and occasionally I talk about ships. View all posts by flintsredhair
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