50 free Legolas trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Legolas arrives at the Council of Elrond as a messenger with bad news about Gollum and leaves Middle-earth on a boat he built himself, with a Dwarf aboard. In between he shoots a Nazgûl's steed out of the dark, loses an Orc-count at Helm's Deep by one, hears the gulls at Pelargir and is never quite at home under the trees again. Tolkien used the name as early as 1917, for an Elf who guided survivors out of burning Gondolin. These 50 questions cover the book, the films and the people around him: his father Thranduil, the Elvenking of The Hobbit; Glóin's grudge and Gimli's three strands of Galadriel's hair; the Glittering Caves; the Silvan Elves he settled in Ithilien; and the sailing west after Aragorn died. On screen there is Anthony Daniels in 1978, David Collings on the radio, and Orlando Bloom, who auditioned for Faramir, broke a rib falling off a horse, and came back for two Hobbit films opposite an Elf who is not in the novel. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation so a miss still teaches you something. Play it solo or print it for a Tolkien night.
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Q 01To which kindred of Elves does Legolas belong?
Sindar
The Sindar or Grey Elves ruled over the Silvan Wood-elves of Mirkwood.
Q 02Legolas first appears at the Council of Elrond carrying news of whose escape?
Gollum
Gollum had been held in Thranduil's dungeons for questioning by Gandalf.
Q 03How many members made up the Fellowship of the Ring?
9
Nine walkers were chosen to match the nine Black Riders.
Q 04Crossing the Misty Mountains in a snowstorm, what did Legolas report about the drift ahead?
It was only a narrow wall
He ran lightly over the snow that Aragorn and Boromir were ploughing through.
Q 05In the lowlands of Hollin, Legolas helped fend off an attack by whose wargs?
Saruman's
Saruman's spies and wolves dogged the Fellowship long before the orcs at Amon Hen.
Q 06In Moria, Legolas recognised "Durin's Bane" as what creature?
A Balrog
Gandalf fell on the Bridge of Khazad-dûm fighting it.
Q 07Whose mistreatment by Thranduil had rekindled the Elf-Dwarf quarrel with Gimli?
Glóin
Glóin was one of Thorin's company locked in the Elvenking's dungeons in The Hobbit.
Q 08What gift did Legolas receive from Galadriel when the Fellowship left Lothlórien?
A longbow
He used it to bring down a Nazgûl's flying steed in the dark with a single shot.
Q 09What did Legolas bring down in the dark with a single arrow from his new bow?
A Nazgûl's flying steed
The shot, fired from the banks of the Anduin, is one of the great feats of archery in the book.
Q 10Hearing gulls at which port awoke Legolas's Sea-longing?
Pelargir
It happened as the Dead of Dunharrow terrified the Corsairs from their ships.
Q 11What is the Sea-longing a desire to do?
Sail west to Valinor
The longing is latent among all Elves of Middle-earth and was woken in Legolas by the gulls.
Q 12Legolas promised Gimli a visit to which wonder behind Helm's Deep?
Glittering Caves of Aglarond
Gimli's praise of the caves was the one time Legolas admitted the Dwarf had bested him in speech.
Q 13After the war, Legolas settled Silvan Elves in which region of Gondor?
Ithilien
It became once again "the fairest country in all the westlands" and they stayed a hundred years of Men.
Q 21Who voiced Legolas in the 1981 BBC Radio 4 adaptation?
David Collings
Robert Stephens played Aragorn and Ian Holm played Frodo in the same production.
Q 22Who played Legolas in Peter Jackson's film trilogy?
Orlando Bloom
It was his first major role, landed two days after graduating from drama school.
Q 23In which Hobbit film did Legolas first appear, despite being absent from the novel?
The Desolation of Smaug
His role was an addition, complete with a romance with the invented Elf Tauriel.
Q 14After whose death did Legolas build a ship and sail into the West?
Aragorn's
He reportedly took Gimli with him, the first Dwarf to reach the Undying Lands.
Q 15In which early Tolkien tale, circa 1917, did the name Legolas Greenleaf first appear?
The Fall of Gondolin
That Legolas guided survivors of the sacked city to safety and is mentioned only once.
Q 16Which Old English poem does Legolas's lament over the stones of Hollin recall?
The Ruin
"Deep they delved us, fair they wrought us, high they builded us; but they are gone."
Q 17Legolas's line about Meduseld shining far over the land translates a line from which poem?
Beowulf
Tom Shippey spotted the borrowing: líxte se léoma ofer landa fela.
Q 18Scholar Christina Scull calls the Legolas-Gimli friendship the greatest what in the book?
Reconciliation theme
The distrust between their races went back to the Dwarves' sack of Menegroth in the First Age.
Q 19Who voiced Legolas in Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated film?
Anthony Daniels
Daniels, better known as C-3PO, took Glorfindel's place in the Flight to the Ford.
Q 20In the 1978 animated film, Legolas takes the place of which Elf on the road to Rivendell?
Glorfindel
He sets Frodo on his horse before the Nazgûl chase him to the ford of Bruinen.
Q 24Who played Legolas in The Lord of the Rings: The Musical in the West End?
Michael Rouse
The Toronto production in 2006 ran three hours before the show transferred to London.
Q 25Who played Legolas in the 1993 Finnish miniseries Hobitit?
Ville Virtanen
Kari Väänänen played Aragorn in the same series.
Q 26What does the name Thranduil mean in Sindarin?
Vigorous spring
His son's name, Legolas, is the one that means Greenleaf.
Q 27Who was Thranduil's father, killed at the Battle of Dagorlad?
Oropher
Only a third of the Woodland army that marched to the Last Alliance came home.
Q 28Thranduil's underground halls were inspired by which First Age stronghold?
Menegroth
Like Thingol, he used the skill of the Dwarves to build them.
Q 29In The Hobbit, what crown does the Elvenking wear in autumn?
Red leaves and berries
In spring he swaps it for a crown of flowers.
Q 30How did Thorin's Dwarves escape Thranduil's dungeons?
Inside barrels
The barrels floated down the Forest River to Lake-town.