#cringefail legolas

[galadrielspeaks]

legolas being some cringe fail elf dating the hottest bachelor dwarf in all of middle earth is something that is so deeply important to me

[coveredinsun]

i just had a thats so raven-esque vision of one time after the war when legolas and gimli are on Their Travels and they encounter none other than legolas’ old one-sided situationship tauriel. and he’s working his way through a catch-up session that’s family reunion level of awkward. he’s like “heyyyyy it’s been like a month (60 years) since i’ve seen you. how have you been since ummm. well. since that guy died. and my dad banished you.” and tauriel is like “well actually i’ve been great! just sort of living off the land. i visit rivendell sometimes that’s fun. i suppose besides The Grief i’m doing fine but i do miss the spiders sometimes. oh and no hard feelings about your dad banishing me by the way! i mean it was pretty fucked up but i don’t blame you for it.” and legolas is like “good, good………. yeah. the spiders.”

and then there’s a very long silence and tauriel is like “so………. care to introduce me to your friend?” and legolas (he’s absolutely 100% fucked and he knows it) is like “Um. Well. This is………. Gimli. Say Hi Gimli.” and gimli is like “hi i’m gimli. son of gloin and husband to legolas. pleasure to meet you my lady!” and legolas has to keep himself from exploding cartoonishly at the sheer >:3 face tauriel gives him before she’s like “wow husband? how novel for a dwarf and an elf to fall in love!” and it’s legolas’ worst day on middle earth and tauriel’s greatest. gimli and tauriel exchange phone numbers

[jessaerys]

the lord of the rings movies are essential taka source code but ive only watched them once when i was unbelievably high so we are watching them again in one hour segments like it's a miniseries bc it's the absolute only way it doesn't feel like an insurmountable task. anyway four hours in and one movie finished it has got to be said. sam is so wife he and frodo are so in love it makes me sick. also we keep having to pause every half hour for me to point at the movie and go HERITAGE MEME????? there's so many of them

[ronaan]

frankly speaking i should have known astarion would do nothing for me because i have been confused why people are drooling over thranduil for years

[tathrin]

What's your idea on spoken Silvan? With multiple sources, depending on what's read it could be a language shift happened and it's no longer a spoken language. Or that the language spoken in Mirkwood is not Sindarin but related to it, implying Silvan but also could be a creole. With Tolkien's writing there's probably another version somewhere.

omg I love that you think that *I* am somehow the sort of Tolkien Expert who should be asked questions like this, no. No my friend, alas, I am soooo far from the right choice here. (But I'm flattered that I've posted enough LotR stuff to somehow trick you. Also, sorry.)

(You want original SW minutia, old EU canon stuff? I will stack myself up against pretty much anybody, sure. I can say "I have forgotten more about Star Wars than you will ever know" to folks and just actually be lamenting details that I'm fuzzy on rather than gatekeeping, I'm not kidding. But Tolkien? Oh my stars friend, no, I am so very much an unread novice in these waters.)

That said...my COMPLETELY unfounded off-the-cuff answer, based entirely on the Lórien scene of Fellowship and meta that I've read other people post, is that the language spoken in Mirkwood is Sindarin, but with such heavy Silvan influence and accent that it's almost unrecognizable to those who don't speak Sindarin as a first/primary language themselves or who've never heard that dialect before.

That said: somebody who actually knows what they're talking about instead of just pulling nonsense out of their ass, please share your ideas with the anon here thank you.

[twicearoundthebend]

Imagine going on a cross country trip to share the (mildly embarrassing) news with an adjacent king that your guards lost a prisoner, but when you get there- there’s actually a huge crowd of people who all get called into a massive Super Important Meeting. And the prisoner (who you thought wasn’t like That Big of a deal) gets brought up, and everyone’s talking about how great your kingdoms security is, and how important it is that he’s locked up, and you’re just sitting there sweating buckets. And you have to stand up in front of Everybody and tell them ‘actually he escaped and had been gone for months’. While everyone looks at you with the most disappointed faces you’ve ever seen. What a loser.

And Then you have to go on an even Longer trip with all of these people who’s first impression of you was some cringefail sweaty loser who can’t even keep track of one (1) guy.

No wonder Legolas was showing off every chance he got, he was trying to bring his reputation up from like -100

[elfdyke]

every single elf who sees Gimli and Legolas thinks of them as "the weird elf prince and his dwarf boyfriend" but to the dwarves they are "Gimli The Sex Symbol and his cringefail elf boyfriend"

[garden-variety-jumo]

That HC that by elf standards Legolas is cringefail and by dwarven standards, Gimli is peak is super fucking funny bc by dwarves standards it's just kinda

"World's hottest dwarf falls for lanky hairless thing"

[sine-fine-inanis]

legolas my cringefail girlboyfriend

[deadthingposting]

Gimli was absolutely down to fight a guy because he didn't recognized Galadriel's beauty

What I am saying is that, even if legolas is considered a cringefail ugly duckling of an elf I believe there is no person on middle earth to say a thing about it out loud under the risk of getting beaten up by gimli son of gloin

[wordbunch]

Also. linguistics nerd 🤨🫵

what do their names meannnn💞💞

oh my goodness.....this ask!!! not someone asking abt my OCs sklusjhsljs OKAY 🥺💖💖

Díor is the son of Beren and Lúthien and the first half-elf ever, and his name means 'successor'. I think it's a beautiful name and since Díorien is a half-elf with murky ancestry, she could well be related to him, we never ever actually find out where she comes from - but it's about where she goes! 🥳 Since Gandalf is in possession of the ring of fire, and she has the gift (or curse? 👀) of fire-based magic, maybe she could be his successor in a way? however i'm not sure whether I would primarily place her in The Hobbit events, or LOTR, because she could definitely tag along with Gandalf for either of them and be there to learn and help. 😇

Anereleth I struggle with A LOT, her original name was/is Annareleth (anna=gift) but I have mixed feelings about us two "having similar names" let's say 😂😂 she's her father's little princess and The Gifted Child (as opposed to cringefail Legolas lmao 😂💛), but sadly that's all I have for now... always open for interpretations and ideas!

thank you for this ask so much, i had no idea i'd be so happy about getting it 😘😘😘

[galadrielspeaks]

you guys seemed to enjoy my cringe-fail legolas sexy gimli post so here’s some more of my thoughts ab that dynamic:

-when legolas goes home and announces his engagement to gimli thranduil is shocked but every other elf is like “yeah checks out. that kid’s always been a little weird.”

-gimli goes home to announce his engagement to legolas and every dwarf promptly loses their SHIT at the fact that THE gimli, son of gloin, is betrothed. only to further lose their shit at the fact that it’s to that weird elf prince that they have never heard speak unless to send some sort of diplomatical message for his father but some dwarflings once saw him sobbing in front of a tree in the middle of a rainstorm while gripping a fallen branch.

-thranduil only gives his blessing to the proposal once he realises just how angry all of erebor is that their most eligible bachelor, gimli, the silver-tongued battle ready diplomant and descendant of kings, has been stolen away by thranduils weird tree-hugging naked star gazing hippie son.

[milesasinmorales]

As much as I love Legolas being elegant I love cringefail Legolas far more

[ao3feed-tolkien]

Four of Wands

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by leftwriteleft

While awaiting Aragorn's coronation in Minas Tirith, Legolas attempts to woo Gimli in a very elvish fashion. Unfortunately for Legolas, Gimli is not an elf, and have no idea what's going on. Legolas sets out to get help from the others in an attempt to uncover the secretive ways of dwarfish courting, so that Legolas may reveal his intentions to Gimli in a way that he will understand and appreciate.

Words: 1691, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: M/M

Characters: Legolas Greenleaf, Gimli (Son of Glóin), Aragorn | Estel, Gandalf | Mithrandir, Pippin Took, Merry Brandybuck, Frodo Baggins, Sam Gamgee

Relationships: Gimli (Son of Glóin)/Legolas Greenleaf, Gimli (Son of Glóin) & Legolas Greenleaf

Additional Tags: Cultural Differences, Dwarf Courting, Dwarf/Elf Relationship(s), cringefail legolas au, aragorn is tired, gandalf is annoyed, legolas is desperate, the hobbits are helpful, and gimli doesn't know a thing, no beta| we die like ppl who don't have others to proofread

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/4eiaFOV

[galadrielspeaks]

MORE cringefail legolas:

-to the mirkwood elves legolas is some weird, musty, unrefined, hippie, bow-obsessed elf that puts zero effort into his appearance who they cannot understand for the LIFE of them.

-while most elves try to maintain some sense of decorum in mirkwood legolas clearly has missed some sort of memo, leading to some very cringe moments of him walking into various formal settings covered in mud, leaves, spider guts, and absolutely reeking of BO

-it’s true that all the other elves of mirkwood have a connection with nature, but legolas is wired into the nature mainframe. he definitely is that kid who ate dirt so he could understand what flavour the trees liked best.

-legolas tried for years to copy his dads effortless, unbraided hair but he could Not pull it off at all. it ended up with him having constant matted, frizzy hair that was a bird’s nest.

-the difference between formally dressed, groomed, and properly combed ‘son of thranduil heir of mirkwood’ legolas and ‘i just gone done fucking around in the woods hunting for 15 hours and have literal bird poop in my hair but listen to me talk about this rare breed of tree and new rabbit hole i found’ legolas is massive.

-legolas once disappeared for about 4 days out of nowhere, scaring the SHIT out of thranduil, who had went out himself to lead a search party for his son. when they found him he was butt ass naked in one of the tallest trees. his explanation for his disappearance? “ada listen okay it’s a blood super moon these are Super super rare so i camped out here to moon bathe and recharge my spirit— you might not get it but trust me bro energetically i am completely recharged— yes ada i know it’s not the first age and elves have modesty but if the moon light isn’t touching all of my skin i don’t charge as much. no ada. ada listen- it’s not a big deal ada what’s with all the dramatics???” thranduil forbade anyone to talk about what they saw.

[galadrielspeaks]

when i say cringefail legolas sexy gimli i don’t mean legolas is some ugly incompetent elf while gimli is some suave alpha dwarf. i mean that when the dwarfs of erebor travelled to mirkwood for a week to discuss gimli’s engagement to their prince, legolas tried to wear his hair loose and unbraided like his father in a bid to seem more regal but in the middle of a training exercise he shot off an incredible bow shot at the expense of getting a handful of his hair caught and launched with the arrow to his Complete embarrassment & everyone else’s mirth- and gimli was just like “ach… would you look at that… like the golden leaves from the most beauteous autumn tree flowing in the air, there goes his fine hair, flowing in the breeze- nae a sight more beautiful to be seen seconds before death than those golden strands flying.” and all the dwarfs start “oooing” and “ahhhing” at his poetry while legolas is standing there with a chunk of his hair sticking out of his head like 🧍