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Originally Posted by Moviefan2k4
How was he over the top or sloppy? Not even the best fighters can deal with lots of enemies coming from all sides at once.
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When Thorin saves him from an enemy right behind him, that's slightly acceptable, though still somewhat unbelievable considering the hyper-awareness elves display (I always internalize it somewhat like Spiderman's Spidey Sense). That still would have been fine, however there really was no excuse for Tauriel saving him moments later when the fighting had died down and he nearly got shot by an arrow. We already know he would have either heard the bow being pulled (because the orc shooting the arrow would have been somewhat nearby), or would have heard the arrow flying through the air (again, hyperdrive senses).
After all, a bit later Tauriel senses Legolas drawing his bow with an arrow strung, and he's quite a way off. Unless Legolas just had earplugs in the whole time, I can't make sense of what happens with his character here.
Perhaps I just have to accept that Jackson deviated from his character momentarily to create a bit more excitement, as he is wont to do.
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The whole point of Legolas and Gimli being friends in "Rings" was to show how people overcome unjust bias and/or prejudice. Sixty years earlier, Legolas would've been strictly against Dwarves, so his comments with Gloin make sense.
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Maybe he would have been, but although Legolas's father threw Gloin in jail, had Tauriel not been a character, Legolas could have instead chased after the dwarves and had some interaction with Gloin which, though not changing his mind completely about dwarves, might have begun to soften his heart leading up to the events of the Fellowship being formed. After all, consider that Legolas is already hundreds, possibly thousands of years old. It takes time to change the perception of old grudges (e.g. the sacking of Doriath), and a positive interaction with Gloin might have yielded something from Legolas akin to, "Perhaps there's more honor in dwarves now than the elves have known in ages past." The line itself is unimportant, but the acknowledgement that perhaps there is something more than mindless hatred, that would have been a start.
I don't recall Legolas being quite as antagonistic of Gimli so much as the other way around, so this sort of thing may have worked. Sadly, it never will/can be now.
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Originally Posted by Moviefan2k4
As for his relationship with Thranduil, I wouldn't be surprised if that comes to a head in the new film.
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I posit that it would have been better for the conflict to have occurred in DoS, then resolved with Thranduil coming to an understanding that he must think beyond his kingdom and care about the fate of Middle Earth in TBo5A.
Why? Because Legolas is sent by his father to the council that decides the fate of the One Ring in Fellowship to alert the council to Gollum's escape from the Woodland Realm. At this point the relationship between Legolas and Thranduil must be reasonably good, so Jackson must (or should) leave their relationship on a positive note in TBo5A. I think that it's difficult to create an effective dramatic arc with films of this scope if you don't let the tension build and the anger grumble for a time, especially with elves. Thranduil is very set in his ways, we can clearly see, and given his nature it would take some time for his viewpoint to be swayed, even by his son, so I think it would have been better for the conflict to have begun in DoS, if it will even occur at all.
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