Posted: July 25, 2000 at 03:55:43: by Michael Martinez
: Some 'groups' are wrong. Legolas is definitely a Sindarin Elf.
: He is not Silvan. 'Racially' the Sindar were dark-haired,
: (with some variance, silver or blond).We don't know what race Legolas' mother was, but his family (on his father's side) definitely tried to shed its Sindarin heritage. Also, some of the Sindar WERE wood elves. They just weren't wood elves from the Vales of Anduin. It's all rather confusing (as I tried to point out in my "Wild, Wild, Wood Elf West" article on Suite101). As for hair color, I think most people favor Legolas as a blond, although it's hard to justify either his having blond hair or his father (but his father DOES have blond hair in THE HOBBIT).
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