[–] 1 point 2 months ago*

i mean tolkien seems to have been a sort of passively progressive man; i can totally see him knowing legolas and gimli to be gay but just not being able to consciously entertain the idea, and thus ending up with them being the closest thing he could put to text.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Legolas and gimli, canonically and literally, sailed off into the sunset together after spending a hundred years traveling the world side by side, and Gimli was the only dwarf ever to be given passage to the uttermost west without entering the halls of the god of death.

    Legolas isn't just gay-coded. I won't try and claim that Tolkien intended it, but death of the author dictates that the text stands on its own, and those two stand as life partners in the text.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    Magic wizards dropping from the sky fully formed are hard to pin an age on. He is either older than the creation of ME or we mark time from when he arrives on middle earth. (He entered existence before the beginning of time, participating in the "Music of the Ainur" which shaped the world.)

    Legolas was born sometime in the Third Age (possibly early ~87TA per movie lore).

    Gandolf arrived in 1000TA, after the other Wizards, around the time the shadow fell over greenwood/murkwood.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    That is the official movie cannon age, but not canon from JRRT.

    It is a reasonable estimate as he was probably born in the early Third Age. He is well over 500, based on his statement that 500 years since the building of Meduseld felt like "a little while". So, anywhere 2-3k yo is reasonable.

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