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Oropher

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Sep 21, 2026

Corey OlsenHOST
8:59
Yes, yes.
Corey OlsenHOST
9:00
Thranduil and Oropher are Sindars from Doria.
Corey OlsenHOST
9:03
So, yes, that is true.
Corey OlsenHOST
9:05
But, again, even their...
Corey OlsenHOST
11:34
That is, the language which we think of as Sindarin was still the language of the Noldor in Tolkien's head throughout the writing of The Lord of the Rings.
Corey OlsenHOST
11:48
Like, that's still clearly true from reading the first drafts of the appendices, which were written after The Lord of the Rings was completed.
Corey OlsenHOST
11:59
So... a lot is in flux but Bob the Sindar certainly did I get how so ever things might be shuffling around the Sindar clearly did exist in that the story of Thingol and Doriath are clearly there like what he did what he decided to do in the context like in the context in the later on in the appendices when he decides that Legolas and Thranduil and Oropher were in fact Sindar He...
Corey OlsenHOST
12:41
He...
Matthias AustinHOST
6:06
But with that beneath the waves, only in Khazad-dûm could Mithril be found in the Third Age and onward.
Matthias AustinHOST
6:13
Now, we don't know Legolas' age for certain, but a logical guess was that he was born either in the Third Age or very, very late in the Second Age, because both Thranduil his father and Oropher his grandfather are mentioned in the Unfinished Tales as fighting in the War of the Last Alliance, but no mention is given of Legolas.
Matthias AustinHOST
6:35
Now, I don't want to get too detailed right now about Legolas because, well, spoilers for later in the episode, we're going to be talking a lot more about him and specifically when he was born.
Matthias AustinHOST
6:45
For now, let's assume he was born sometime in the Third Age.
Matthias AustinHOST
8:57
His people neither mined nor worked metals or jewels, nor did they bother much with trade or with tilling the earth." And so Thranduil and his people, they dislike dwarves, they blamed them for a great injustice in the past, which, hey, see my episode on why dwarves and elves hate each other, and they didn't really do any trading.
Matthias AustinHOST
9:19
So it doesn't make sense that the dwarves would have made a male shirt for Legolas of the Woodland Realm.
Matthias AustinHOST
9:25
And Thranduil's distrust went back even to his father, Oropher, which we read this about him in the Unfinished Tales.
Matthias AustinHOST
9:32
In the Second Age, their king, the king of the sylvan elves of the woodland realm, Oropher, the father of Thranduil, father of Legolas, had withdrawn northward beyond the Gladden Fields.
JohnHOST
16:41
While he is indeed the son of Thranduil and therefore a prince of the woodland elves, he is also of Sindarin descent, and therefore a cousin of the Teleri.
JohnHOST
16:51
His grandfather was Oropher of Doriath, one of the Sindarin survivors of the First Age.
JohnHOST
16:57
This heritage puts Galadriel's earlier warning to Legolas in context.
JohnHOST
17:02
Legolas Greenleaf, long under tree, in joy thou hast lived, beware of the sea.

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The Last Alliance of Elves and Men: The Victory That Doomed Middle-earth

Sep 8 · 5 Mentions

speaker_2NARRATOR
4:23
From the two realms in exile came the Dunedain, tall and grim.
speaker_2NARRATOR
4:28
Down the Vale of Anduin the host gathered the sylvan elves of the Greenwood under Oropher, and of Lorien under Amdir.
speaker_2NARRATOR
4:36
And from the deep halls of Khazad-dûm came a host of Durin's folk, the dwarves marching to war beside elves and men.
speaker_2NARRATOR
4:45
To anyone standing on the slopes of the misty mountains as that column passed, it would have looked like a river of banners, so vast that the orcs of the mountains did not dare to harry it.
speaker_2NARRATOR
9:31
The clearest account of this comes not from the polished pages of the Silmarillion, but from Tolkien's later notes, gathered in Unfinished Tales, which means it carries a softer kind of canon, the author's intent rather than his finished word.
speaker_2NARRATOR
9:47
But it is among the most human details in the whole war.
speaker_2NARRATOR
9:51
The sylvan elves of the Greenwood and of Lorien marched under their own kings, Oropher and Amdia, and these two were, in Tolkien's words, unwilling to submit to the supreme command of Gil-galad.
speaker_2NARRATOR
10:04
They were of the older, cinder-in-nobility of the woodland realms.

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