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Trials of the Fellowship by AceOfShadows
Fandom: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
16 Mar 2017
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And then it hit me, all at once: the cheerful demeanour; the slips between Elvish and Westron as if fluent but inexperienced; how he held himself apart from the group, but joined in if invited...
How very very young those bright blue eyes looked.
No, Legolas was not like the Elves I'd known; he was so much younger.
More inexperienced with the world beyond his Woodland Realm. Not a child, obviously, or else Lord Elrond would not have allowed him on this quest, or a tween, like Pippin was, but a young adult, more like Merry or Samwise than myself.
Suddenly, his presence in the Fellowship made far more sense. My cousins, Sam and I had often discussed the other members of the Fellowship before we had left Rivendell, wondering what they were like and their motivations for joining us. Boromir and Aragorn were heading South to Gondor and the war there, taking them on the same path as us and Gimli had joined out of comradeship - his father and Bilbo had been on the Quest for Erebor together, so in the months together in Rivendell, we had become friends. But Legolas...he had been the odd one out.
We'd been so surprised to hear Lord Elrond announce his name instead of Glorfindel's or his sons', we'd never even considered that the quiet Mirkwood Elf would have even volunteered to go, so we'd never really discussed him. But now Lord Elrond's reasons were becoming apparent to me: he'd chosen Legolas because he was so young, because he was not yet so old that he had become tired of Middle-Earth and its people, because he was still optimistic and light-hearted and not yet weighed down by years of war and suffering like so many of the older Elves.