On a Quest

as in, “”female-exclusive”” bisexual radfems. so just to recap:

bi women who have a preference for women? amazing!

bi women who only date other women? absolutely stunning!

This is right after Gandalf says, “A balrog. A demon of the ancient world.”

I just love how PJ chose to cut to Legolas’ face because he is exactly who you should cut to at this moment. You need an elf to show what it really means. Other than Gandalf, the rest of the Fellowship can sense something is gravely wrong, but they don’t understand just how grave. Like Gandalf, Legolas knows the terror. He understands the gravity of what lies around that corner. He’s got a piddly little bow and he is mere steps away from a demon of the ancient world. This frame shows a kid coming to the realisation that he is way out of his depth, that this mission will take him to places he only knew to exist in legends of the Elder Days, a time long gone, barely history. 

In its right hand was a blade like a stabbing tongue of fire; in its left hand it held a whip of many thongs.

Legolas first appears as a minor character in The Fall of Gondolin, which is about the sacking of an ancient (First Age) elf city by a great and terrible army, including multiple balrogs, sent by Morgoth, an evil god who was Sauron’s boss. Glorfindel died the first time tackling a balrog by himself. (Eru Ilúvatar just sends the Elves on back after they die if they don’t want to stay in the Grey Havens.) 

Legolas was one of the scouts (being “long-eyed”) who brought refugees of Gondolin to safety. One of those refugees was a seven-year-old Eärendil. Eärendil, you may recall, is the mariner who had a Silmaril on the prow of his ship and was made into “our most beloved star.” (This starlight is captured by Galadriel in a vial of water and given to Frodo and Sam, which Sam uses to scare off Shelob in Cirith Ungol.) 

And who might the sons of Eärendil be? None other than Elrond Half-Elven, father of Arwen and leader of Rivendell, and Elwing, far-back ancestor of Aragorn.