#thinking abt how much of his 'i am a kinsman here' is actually abt celeborn & how much is about being silvan <- mostly joking but also.

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this is obviously not really supported in any of the text directly relevant to him but I wonder if it was weird for legolas to be in lothlorien, where like mirkwood there's a large population of silvan elves but with an entirely different cultural dynamic. like considering we know his family completely assimilated into silvan culture and he clearly considers himself silvan I wonder how it felt to him to be somewhere where it's not like that, where there's been much more of an imposition of noldor/sindar culture onto the silvan elves that live there from their foreign rulers. weird vibes surely