Thranduil Lessons Of Life Why Drinking Before Fighting Is A Bad Idea Thanks for an excellent read! actually, the idea that thranduil and perhaps many of the silvan elves continued living in middle earth into the fourth age makes the final chapter of the legendarium less sombre for me. i always found the departure of the elves and other magical remnants of the elder days in the early fourth age (and the subseq. Thranduil is a tragic character. he lost half his elves in the war of the last alliance, then had to move his home to north mirkwood because of the necromancer. he had been through a lot, and his treatment of thorin and co. might seem harsh, but thorin was a jerk too. he refused to tell thranduil why the dwarves were passing through mirkwood.
Thranduil The Fisher King And Oberon Why It Matters Lord Of The As the third age began, thranduil and his folk felt a resurgence of fear and anxiety, an ominous air blowing from the east. while shadow and doubt slowly crept westward, thranduil felt still a “deeper shadow” in his heart, for “he had seen the horror of mordor and could not forget it” (ut 271). the pain of war remained very real for. This is discussed in the director's commentary. thranduil's prior encounter with dragons (which the director happily admits is not from the books) was included to explain his deep isolationism and the reason why he wouldn't help the dwarves. there's also the suggestion that a firedrake killed his wife, explaining her absence from the film. Tharanduil was a powerful enough warrior to survive the massacre at the battle of dagorlad, when his father charged the forces of mordor before the rest of the armies were prepared for battle. throughout the entire war against mordor, he survived where 2 3 of his people (and his father) perished. thranduil*. Thranduil's birth date and early life are not recorded. he may have been born in the first age, or early second age. he was of sindarin descent. his father oropher was originally one of the iathrim of doriath. thranduil and legolas by anna lee. many of the sindar left lindon and travelled eastward before the building of the barad dûr in s.a. 1000.
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