Oropher
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Sep 21, 2026
Session 384: Legolas Begins the Story of Nimrodel
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8:59Corey OlsenHOST
Yes, yes.
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9:00Corey OlsenHOST
Thranduil and Oropher are Sindars from Doria.
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9:03Corey OlsenHOST
So, yes, that is true.
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9:05Corey OlsenHOST
But, again, even their...
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11:34Corey OlsenHOST
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.
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11:48Corey OlsenHOST
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.
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11:59Corey OlsenHOST
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...
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12:41Corey OlsenHOST
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Mailbag Episode! Bilbo's Mithril Coat & A Biography of Legolas Greenleaf
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6:06Matthias AustinHOST
But with that beneath the waves, only in Khazad-dûm could Mithril be found in the Third Age and onward.
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6:13Matthias AustinHOST
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.
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6:35Matthias AustinHOST
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.
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6:45Matthias AustinHOST
For now, let's assume he was born sometime in the Third Age.
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8:57Matthias AustinHOST
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.
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9:19Matthias AustinHOST
So it doesn't make sense that the dwarves would have made a male shirt for Legolas of the Woodland Realm.
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9:25Matthias AustinHOST
And Thranduil's distrust went back even to his father, Oropher, which we read this about him in the Unfinished Tales.
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9:32Matthias AustinHOST
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.
Tolkien's Overture: Musical Mathoms (Chapter 7)
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16:41JohnHOST
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.
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16:51JohnHOST
His grandfather was Oropher of Doriath, one of the Sindarin survivors of the First Age.
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16:57JohnHOST
This heritage puts Galadriel's earlier warning to Legolas in context.
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17:02JohnHOST
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
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4:23speaker_2NARRATOR
From the two realms in exile came the Dunedain, tall and grim.
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4:28speaker_2NARRATOR
Down the Vale of Anduin the host gathered the sylvan elves of the Greenwood under Oropher, and of Lorien under Amdir.
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4:36speaker_2NARRATOR
And from the deep halls of Khazad-dûm came a host of Durin's folk, the dwarves marching to war beside elves and men.
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4:45speaker_2NARRATOR
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.
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9:31speaker_2NARRATOR
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.
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9:47speaker_2NARRATOR
But it is among the most human details in the whole war.
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9:51speaker_2NARRATOR
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.
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10:04speaker_2NARRATOR
They were of the older, cinder-in-nobility of the woodland realms.