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49 free Legolas trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 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 49 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 01Legolas's royal line descends from which kindred of Elves?
Sindar
Sindar. His grandfather came east from Doriath to rule the Silvan Wood-elves, which is why Legolas can speak of 'us of the silvan folk' while Tolkien called him of royal and originally Sindarin line.
Q 02Legolas first appears at the Council of Elrond carrying news of whose escape?
Gollum
Gollum. Aragorn had caught him and the Wood-elves were his jailers, but they were too kind to keep him shut in the dark, and an Orc raid gave him the chance to slip away.
Q 03Which guard of Lothlórien's border challenges the Fellowship, leaving Legolas to answer for the company?
Haldir
Haldir. He would let Gimli pass only blindfolded, the Dwarf refused, and the quarrel ended only when the whole Fellowship agreed to walk blindfolded, Legolas included, to the Elf's disgust.
Q 04On Caradhras, how does Legolas scout ahead while Aragorn and Boromir plough through the drifts?
He runs on top of the snow
He runs on top of the snow. Light-footed in mere shoes, he goes ahead and comes back to tell the labouring Men that the great drift barring their way is only a narrow wall.
Q 05Which Rider of Rohan lends Legolas the horse Arod, which he rides with Gimli seated behind him?
Éomer
Éomer. Arod had lost his own rider in the fight with the Orcs, and letting three strangers ride off free broke the law of Rohan, which helped get Éomer arrested when he returned to Edoras.
Q 06In Moria, Legolas recognised "Durin's Bane" as what creature?
A Balrog
A Balrog. Legolas knew it at once, and Gandalf sent the others on while he held the Bridge of Khazad-dûm alone, breaking it under the creature before its whip dragged him down too.
Q 07Why does Legolas feel no fear on the Paths of the Dead, where even Gimli is terrified?
Mortal ghosts cannot frighten Elves
Mortal ghosts cannot frighten Elves. The shades of Men hold no terror for his kind, he says, while Gimli forces himself through the Dark Door only because he cannot bear to be outdone by an Elf underground.
Q 08What was Galadriel's own parting gift to Legolas as the Fellowship left Lothlórien?
A longbow
A longbow. It was one of the Galadhrim's own, longer and stouter than the bows of his forest home, and it soon proved its worth, when Legolas loosed a single shot in the dark from the bank of the Great River.
Q 09On the Great River, what did Legolas bring down in the dark with a single arrow?
A Nazgûl's flying steed
A Nazgûl's flying steed. In the dark nobody could tell what the dreadful winged shadow was; only when they met Gandalf again did Legolas learn that his arrow had unhorsed one of the Ringwraiths.
Q 10Hearing gulls at which port awoke Legolas's Sea-longing?
Pelargir
Pelargir. He heard the gulls as Aragorn's army of the Dead drove the Corsairs from their ships there, just as Galadriel had warned him: the cry of a gull would end his peace in the forest.
Q 11For an Elf such as Legolas, what is the Sea-longing a desire to do?
Sail west to Valinor
Sail west to Valinor. The longing sleeps in every Elf of Middle-earth, and once the gulls had woken it in Legolas it never left him, though he held out for more than a century after the war.
Q 12Legolas agreed to visit the Glittering Caves if Gimli would walk with him afterwards in which forest?
Fangorn
Fangorn. Neither relished the other's choice, an Elf under stone and a Dwarf among ancient trees, yet once the war was won they kept the bargain and made both journeys together.
Q 13After the war, Legolas settled Silvan Elves in which region of Gondor?
Ithilien
Q 21Who voiced Frodo opposite David Collings's Legolas on BBC radio in 1981?
Ian Holm
Ian Holm. Twenty years after voicing Frodo he joined Peter Jackson's films as the aged Bilbo, and his Sam on the radio was a young Bill Nighy, credited as William.
Q 22In The Two Towers film, Legolas cries that the Uruk-hai are taking the hobbits to which stronghold?
Isengard
Isengard. In 2005 a Dutch musician looped the line over a techno remix of the film's score, and the two-minute video made Legolas's shout an internet catchphrase.
Q 23In which Hobbit film did Legolas first appear, despite being absent from the novel?
The Desolation of Smaug
Ithilien. With Sauron gone, the borderland beside Mordor could be lived in again, and under the Elves' care it became once more 'the fairest country in all the westlands'.
Q 14After whose death did Legolas finally leave Middle-earth?
Aragorn's
Aragorn's. He stayed for the whole of the King's long reign and went only when it ended, and the tale adds that he took Gimli with him, the one Dwarf ever said to have made that journey.
Q 15In which early Tolkien tale, begun around 1917, did an Elf named Legolas first appear?
The Fall of Gondolin
The Fall of Gondolin. That Legolas is a different Elf, a keen-eyed scout who leads the city's survivors over the mountains by night; decades later Tolkien gave the name to a new character.
Q 16Which Old English poem do scholars hear in Legolas's lament for the vanished Elves of Hollin?
The Ruin
The Ruin. Its poet stands among fallen stone halls, perhaps Roman Bath, and mourns the builders, just as Legolas hears Hollin's stones say 'deep they delved us, fair they wrought us ... but they are gone'.
Q 17Legolas's line about Meduseld shining far over the land translates a line from which poem?
Beowulf
Beowulf. The borrowed line describes Heorot, the Danish king's gleaming hall, and Tolkien, an Oxford professor of Old English, modelled Rohan's golden hall and its challenging door-wardens on it.
Q 18Scholar Christina Scull calls the Legolas-Gimli friendship the greatest what in the book?
Reconciliation theme
Reconciliation theme. The feud between their peoples was thousands of years old and the two begin the quest trading barbs, yet they end it inseparable, the Elf even conceding that the Dwarf has out-talked him.
Q 19Who voiced Legolas in Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated film?
Anthony Daniels
Anthony Daniels. Fresh from playing C-3PO in Star Wars, he voiced the Elf in a film that stops at Helm's Deep, halfway through the story, because its planned sequel was never made.
Q 20In the 1978 animated film, Legolas takes the place of which Elf on the road to Rivendell?
Glorfindel
Glorfindel. In the book he puts Frodo on his own white horse for the race to the ford; Bakshi handed the part to Legolas, and Peter Jackson's film later gave it to Arwen.
The Desolation of Smaug. The 1937 novel never mentions him, since Tolkien had yet to invent the character, but its Elvenking later became his father, which gave the films their opening.
Q 24In the Hobbit films, Legolas makes his entrance killing what in Mirkwood, before arresting the Dwarves?
Giant spiders
Giant spiders. Bilbo has only just cut the Dwarves out of the webs when the Wood-elves sweep in, finish off the swarm and march the whole company to the Elvenking's halls as prisoners.
Q 25At the end of The Battle of the Five Armies, Thranduil sends Legolas to find a young Ranger called what?
Strider
Strider. The scene is the films' bridge to the later story: the Ranger is Aragorn, the man Legolas will follow across Middle-earth in The Lord of the Rings.
Q 26What does the name Legolas mean in Elvish?
Green leaf
Green leaf. That is why Galadriel's message can hail him as 'Legolas Greenleaf long under tree', using the translation as a second name; his father's name, Thranduil, means 'vigorous spring'.
Q 27After the war, Legolas's Elves and Gimli's Dwarves worked together to restore which battered city?
Minas Tirith
Minas Tirith. Gimli's Dwarves forged it new gates of mithril and steel and Legolas's Elves worked beside them, the old feud between their peoples turned into a building partnership.
Q 28Entering Lothlórien, Legolas sings part of the lay of which Elf-maiden, beside the stream that bears her name?
Nimrodel
Nimrodel. She vanished on the road south and her lover Amroth drowned searching for her; Legolas sings only a part of the lay and stops, saying he has forgotten much of it.
Q 29In The Hobbit, what crown does the Elvenking wear in autumn?
Red leaves and berries
Red leaves and berries. The woodland king changes his crown with the seasons, wearing woodland flowers in spring, and holds a carved oak staff where another king would have a sceptre.
Q 30How did Thorin's Dwarves escape Thranduil's dungeons?
Inside barrels
Inside barrels. With the chief guard and the king's butler asleep over the wine, an invisible Bilbo packed the Dwarves into empty casks, and the Elves themselves then tipped them into the river.