The One Wiki to Rule Them All is a FANDOM Movies Community. These gems are believed to have been a gift for his wife, Legolas mother, who was said to have been the light of his life. However, The Hobbit trilogy expanded more on Legolas Greenleaf's mother, however, this is only within the movies, not the books (so it technically can be considered Peter Jackson's own work of fan fiction). Thranduil's wife & the gems - The One Ring .net "[8] Despite this weakness, he was wise and would not wantonly go to war, risking his people's lives, over treasure. Writings from the Wood Flirtations "[16], He had a particular fondness for white gems and wanted to acquire more: "if the elf-king had a weakness it was for treasure, especially for silver and white gems; and though his hoard was rich, was eager for more, since he had not yet as great a treasure as other elf-lords of old. This again might imply that Legolas isn't fully Sindar, which would suggest his mother is Silvan, but it's a pretty weak argument all things considered. It was such a gift that the queen refused to get it off. [4] In a review of the 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray edition of The Desolation Of Smaug, M. Enois Duarte from High-Def Digest wrote that the confrontation between Thorin and Thranduil was one of the more interesting aspects of the expanded material introduced by Jackson's vision of Tolkien's original narrative for The Hobbit. Ive found myself looking for anything on Thranduils deceased wife / Legolas mom and I cant find anything. thranduil & his wife | he loved her - YouTube 0:00 / 1:12 thranduil & his wife | he loved her ourspaceship 2.05K subscribers Subscribe 188 Share 6.7K views 1 year ago #DaenerysTargaryen. Calathiel and Thranduil married in TA 1, and the same day of her wedding, Calathiel was crowned. He provided no information when interrogated, and Thranduil, in turn, sent him to the dungeon cave "not too gently, for they did not love Dwarves and thought he was an enemy". [T 4] Nothing. The fact that Thranduil is so broken that he cannot even mention her, cannot bring himself to face the pain of her parting, or have a place to mourn her speaks volumes about the coping mechanisms he must have had to undergo in order to live with the tragedy. Crossing the Misty Mountains, they found populations of Silvan Elves living in the woodlands that bordered the River Anduin. [11] The name Thranduil first appears in The Lord of the Rings, in which his title was given as the King of the Elves of Northern Mirkwood. He used an enchantment to hide his scar and painfully searched for his wife. Bard failed, and Thranduil ordered his army to march. It also has a really heartfelt but angry emotion contained within, because it hints that Thranduil feels betrayed by her and her decision to give her life for her sons, because she loved the boy more than Thranduil, and because she left him as if it were a conscious choice. J.R.R. :/, I watched the movies before reading the hobbit book and i was wondering who thranduil's wife was. [2], The Elves of Mirkwood joined the Last Alliance and in S.A. 3434, Thranduil followed his father and numerous lightly armed Elves in the War of the Last Alliance. The Elvenking never forgot his wife, but all women related to her caused him a deep pain. Bilbo, Gandalf and Beorn traveled with the Elf-host back to Mirkwood but would not stay in the woods, even when Thranduil asked them to. Her apparent death seems to have had such a huge impact on both the Woodland Kings political decisions as well as his relationship with his son. Baggins had evaded capture by Thranduil's people through the use of his magic ring.
