[EDibble]

I hope I am posting this in the correct area.

I have been writing a fan fic, which I hope will work out well.

I am hung up on one detail (so far anyway), does anyone know if a name was ever given for the colony Legolas founds after the War of the Ring was over? I have read several fan fics where it is referred to by name, but wonder if Tolkien has even mentioned it anywhere.

Thanks in advance.

Beth

[sindohte]

Legolas settled in Ithilien after the War of the Ring. I don't think the colony itself was given a name.

[Scribe]

I don't know whether or not this may be my fault but in my series I have been calling his colony Eden Ardhon and I know that a few people have requested use of it. Its a made up name using the Sindarin dictionary meaning 'New World', is this name you've come across?

[EDibble]

[Scribe]

Well permission granted if you would like to

[Roisin]

I sometimes find myself confused about what's canon and what I've read in fanfics.

Roisin

[sindohte]

Roisin,

That's a sign that you read WAY too much However, this is coming from a person who once spent an entire day during the blizzard of 2002 reading nothing but LOTR fanfic for over 12 hours.

[Leila]

I must confess to being one of those people who often need to take a step back and figure out what is just fanfic and what is in the actual books. I may read fanfics just a bit too much. Oh well.

[Viv]

[Leila]

One problem I have lately is that in order to be able to read fanfics I print them off and read when I can. Then I'll go back and suddenly discover that I either don't remember where I got it or don't remember who wrote it. Like one of Viv's recently. I spent at least ten minutes one day just searching to find out who wrote a story, which turned out to have been Viv......

[Robbie]

There is a little feature in the bottom left hand corner - "Read / download as plain text". Click the download part, save as a text file. Has all the story information at the top.

Designed for precisely these circumstances, as you're not the only one who reads "off line".

[Leila]

Never noticed that before. Guess I should start bringing plenty of disks to school for in the morning.

[valerie]

since we're on a legolas thread, i thought i'd ask this here instead of starting a new thread... when was legolas born? i dont need an exact date, but an approximate one would do fine... before some incident, and after somether occurence

i put him at about Arwen's age.. but one of my friends said that was very wrong, something about Arwen being a high elf, and legolas not... i'm clueless, and hoping for some help

in addition, what do regular elves *do* during the day... meanign what do they do when they're not going to the grey havens ..if you can point me in the direction of any web resources where i can find this kind of info, i'd be really grateful

val

[Viv]

Tolkien never gave any indication or hint of Legolas's age, mother, possible siblings. None of it. Peter Jackson made up a number and said that's how old Legolas is, but that number has nothing to do with what Tolkien wrote.

Legs says a few things in LoTR that imply that he's more than a few hundred years old, but even those pieces of dialogue are subject to interpretation.

Another possible hint: Frodo's mithril shirt, given to him by Bilbo, was crafted for an elf prince. Mithril wasn't discovered until the 2nd age, and not perfected in terms of craft until later in the 2nd age. That would be long after Elros and Elrond were elfling princes, so perhaps the shirt was made for Legolas, which woudl mean that he was born after the later 2nd age.

Fanon has it that Arwen is the last elf born in middle-earth (because of her name, Undomiel), which would seem to imply that Legolas was born before her. But Tolkien never said so directly.

One other point: Legolas wasn't at the Battle of Five Armies at the end of The Hobbit. You'd think that the king's son would have been there if he was old enough to fight. Or maybe he was just off on another mission or something. At any rate, that strikes me as dodgy, and might imply that Legs is very young.

In other words, we as fanfic writers get to make it up. There's lots of source material for speculation
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[valerie]

thanks much...
yay! i get to make things up!
i've only read the three books, not even the Hobbit, and that was just last month, so i'm new to everything, but i'm sure i'll have fun figuring out stuff
thanks again

val