#i'll drop everything to spend an hour with a dictionary for a bit of sindarin and then have to decide when legolas was even like. born

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Love how the fact that Tolkien was obsessive in his worldbuilding but actually gave us next to nothing on Legolas as a character means that my current fic project is basically just me playing an intense game of “my city now” somehow all fastidiously within the constraints of what may actually be fantasy fiction’s single most well-attested sandbox

#i'll drop everything to spend an hour with a dictionary for a bit of sindarin and then have to decide when legolas was even like. born #nature is amazing