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MonocerosArts In reply to carter-eireann [2013-12-19 23:23:58 +0000 UTC]

This is kind of reassuring, if you're an elf. I used to feel sorry for them because if they could be kids for only about 15 years, what fun is it being grown up for all of eternity?

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Krioshaeu In reply to AnaxErik4ever [2013-05-31 07:31:26 +0000 UTC]

I don't think they're standoffish to their family-

They seem stiff, but I think it is just a professional-sort of persona, If I recall Elrond had a quite - emotional sort of response to the thought of losing Arwen.

I think they are just very-... distant. Almost like they're not really there in the conversation but they are because they're responding... :\ Still more facial expressions than Kristen Stewart.

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AnaxErik4ever In reply to Krioshaeu [2013-05-31 13:24:41 +0000 UTC]

It's like I'm always in fear of not being good enough to talk with them, let alone be in their presence, if I mess something up. Then again, considering I remember Elrond as not being supportive of his daughter's love affair with a mortal, though now I understand the reasons why, it's no surprise that I think all elves are brought up to not be overly emotional, even around family.

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Krioshaeu In reply to Rand0mSmil3z [2013-05-31 07:29:34 +0000 UTC]

In human years. like 5 in Elven XD

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carter-eireann In reply to Krioshaeu [2014-07-31 15:44:09 +0000 UTC]

Tolkien's elves are adults at 100 and reach their adult height at 50.  In this picture Legolas shouldn't be older than 20 human years.  Also, elves actually do have their own variation on years called yen (there should be an accent over the e but I don't know how to do that) which are the length of 144 solar years.

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Spaceball-Ricochet In reply to FantasiaVII [2012-12-21 05:44:49 +0000 UTC]

I read that elves age slower than men physically, reaching full height around 50 years and becoming sexually mature sometime after that. They then cease to age physically, but continue to age mentally. Also, they mentally age faster than men and can speak fully at only a year old. Gimli is 138 and Aragorn is 87, when the fellowship is formed I believe, and Legolas is certainly older than them but he probably isn't more than 2000 years old and was born in the third age based on the history of his father, Thranduil.

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FantasiaVII In reply to Spaceball-Ricochet [2012-12-22 00:49:13 +0000 UTC]

Ooh, interesting. I'll keep that in mind. Where did you learn all this? Also, I'm not sure how old Legolas is in the books when the Fellowship is formed, but in the movies he's 2931, which is definitely way over 2000, but there are quite a few changes in the movies (not that that makes them bad because they're not).

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Spaceball-Ricochet In reply to FantasiaVII [2013-01-13 04:17:40 +0000 UTC]

Though there are plenty of changes to the films, it is still keeping Legolas in the Third Age. From what I've read by various Tolkien interpretations this makes the most sense since Legolas is definitely a young elf and in some ways he is more youthful than Aragorn (who is numerically far younger), having not been on very many quests for example. Under 2000 seems more likely, but 2931 is possible. It's a tricky business with the films anyway, though, since they changed Frodo's age by turning the 17 years between Bilbo's departure and his own leaving the shire into no more than a month.

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Aelwir In reply to Spaceball-Ricochet [2014-06-09 06:23:49 +0000 UTC]

2931 was the year Aragorn was born

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FantasiaVII In reply to Spaceball-Ricochet [2013-01-14 01:32:36 +0000 UTC]

I almost have to keep two calendars in my mind for Middle-earth: one with the seventeen years and Legolas's age unknown, and one without the seventeen years and Legolas being 2931. One for the books, one for the movies. It also changes Aragorn's age; with the seventeen years, he was ten at the time of the Hobbit, without he was twenty-seven (if, of course. he's eighty-seven at the time of LotR). It makes my brain hurt. I try, no matter what version, to think of Legolas and Aragorn as being at sort of the same maturity level, just because it's easier to fit in a lot of the fanfics I read in which they're friends before LotR (aka The Mellon Chronicles). I've been trying to set down a better calendar, though, and fit in things, by brushing up on my history, but every time I go to a bookstore, they seem to have everything by the Silmarillion.

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Spaceball-Ricochet In reply to FantasiaVII [2013-01-19 05:49:57 +0000 UTC]

I tend to just think of their ages as they are in the book and ignore the inconstancies that the films created by glossing over the 17 years. Legolas in my mind tends to be around 1000 years old, give or take. The age the films give doesn't affect anything in it so I sort of ignore it xD. I like to imagine that Legolas and Aragorn knew each other before the events in LotR (though I haven't read any fanfiction with such... I really haven't read much LotR fanfiction tbh) but I'm not sure when they would have met, whether before or after Aragorn was serving in the south as Thorongil. I'm reading the Silmarillion at the moment, but from what I've heard neither of them take part in it. The appendixes of Return of the King seem to a good handful of information on Aragorn's life before the fellowship but nothing on Legolas unfortunately

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FantasiaVII In reply to Spaceball-Ricochet [2013-01-20 04:45:52 +0000 UTC]

I know, the information is so vague on Legolas. I just got the Silmarillion from my school library. *celebrates* I'm not very far into because of studying, though. I'm glad you think Legolas and Aragorn were friends before LotR, though. I was beginning to think no one really would (without the fanfics). "First Meetings" from the Mellon Chronicles is a very interesting way for them to meet, and the only one I know. XD

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