Originally posted by Exa
Laiqualasse?
Yes of course but not with his Quenya name 😄(and Im not sure if its the same one though I think so... at least the name is the same)
One of them lives in my fave city... and one in Mirkwood 😛 if you know whom I mean
I like Pippin, he's funny throughout all of the movies, and he just so dang noble in the third. I voted for him cuz he was my favorite on that list.
But my favorite is Haldir. I loooove the underrated characters. Figwit is quite cool as well, and the moth (that my friend named Steve) that flutters around Gandalf in the third movie, and Celeborn, and Faramir. Yes, I'm straaange.
Originally posted by shadowy_blue
I think though that Laiqualasse from Gondolin and Mirkwood are the same person. Maybe he traveled to Gondolin when he was young and then escaped with Tuor, Idril etc. when the city fell then came back to Middle-earth afterwards?
Originally posted by Exa
Yeah, maybe... the confusing thing for me is that IF he's the same he would be either veeeery old (ok, some thousand years, thats not much, but few survived from the first until the end of the third age) (or he died and was sent back to middle-earth), and - his father was king of Mirkwood (after his grandfather had died in the last alliance), so I wonder - why should a Nandor elf travel the far way into the lands of the north and live there in a hidden city with the noldor while his grandfather is king in northeastern middleearth?
Well yeah, and I just remembered. Legolas Prince of Mirkwood is 2,931 years old right? So yeah, in order for him to be the same Legolas of Gondolin, it should be that he died after his escape from the fall of the city or some time after that and just reincarnated and became the son of Thranduil. But even so, he should have remembered everything that happened to him back in Gondolin 'coz that's the way of the Elves when reincaranated, right? They can still remember what they did in their past life.
Then again, it's highly possible that they are different Elves that has just the same name.
Why oh why didn't Tolkien clarified this? At least Glorfindel from Gondolin and Glorfindel from Rivendell were proven to be the same person. 😎 🤣