Legolas

Legolas of Mirkwood was the son of Thranduil King of the Green-elves. In the year 3018 of the Third Age he was sent to Rivendell to the Council of Elrond as a representative of the Elves of Mirkwood. There he volunteered to join the Fellowship of the Ring and accompanied Frodo until the breaking of the Fellowship at Parth Galen, where Boromir was slain and Merry and Pippin were made captive by the Uruk-hai.

Together with Aragorn and Gimli Legolas pursued them to the borders of Rohan. Then he took part in defense of Helm’s Deep against Saruman’s Uruk-hai, and rode with the Riders of Rohan to the Battle of the Pelennor Fields. Afterwards, he fought valiantly in the Battle of Cormallen in the united army of Rohan and Gondor. After the War of the Ring was over and Sauron finally overthrown, Legolas remained for a while in Middle-earth. Together with Gimli, now his closest friend and sidekick, he journeyed across Mirkwood and to the Glittering Caves of Aglarond. Legolas and Gimli were, in fact, the last surviving members of the Fellowship in Middle-earth when they finally built a ship and sailed westwards to Valinor. Thus in the year 120 of the Fourth Age, “an end was come in Middle-earth of the Fellowship of the Ring”.