King Thranduil
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Sep 16, 2026
speaker_1MODERATOR
I'm not wise in these wizardly things, but that's why I sent you to Radagast.
speaker_2PANELIST
And he, he suggested that we, um, we attend the folkmoot, but then next year go to, uh, the court of King Thranduil in the wooden realm and, uh, seek out, uh, someone who knows about these things.
speaker_2PANELIST
We were given a name, a Lady Ereme who was one of the Noldor.
speaker_2PANELIST
And-
Miles Smith IVGUEST
Nice job on the creativity.
Miles Smith IVGUEST
I'm sure if you can homespin your own Thranduil costume, good for you.
Miles Smith IVGUEST
But I think at some point, Actual labor and our actual day-to-day vocations, I think we need to be more okay with those taking up a lot of our energy even.
Miles Smith IVGUEST
It doesn't mean you neglect your family.
Rachel WeeksPANELIST
With every beast in my deck turned into a combat trick, I'll use the element of surprise to take the top prize.
Don MarshallGUEST
The commander I'm playing today is none other than Legolas' father and the king of Mirkwood, Thranduil, Cinder and Liege.
Don MarshallGUEST
My plan is to get lots of landfall triggers to make an elven army with my commander.
Don MarshallGUEST
Then I've got plenty of lords to pump up my board and type matters cards to draw value.
Don MarshallGUEST
I will untap and draw for turn.
Don MarshallGUEST
I'm going to play a Polluted Delta, and I'm going to crack it immediately.
Don MarshallGUEST
So I'll search my library, and this time I will get a Basic Island, which enters untapped, so I can cast my commander, Thranduil, Cinderin Liege.
Don MarshallGUEST
Nice.
speaker_0ADVERTISER
Middle-Earth.
Matthias AustinHOST
Or is it? Because other than Bilbo running around invisibly in Thranduil's halls during the events of The Hobbit, nothing is really going on on the calendar.
Matthias AustinHOST
But we have a very important day coming up, and I'd like to get your help.
Matthias AustinHOST
See, we're only one week away from Bilbo and Frodo's birthday, September 22nd, which is also celebrated as Hobbit Day around the world.
James ChilcottHOST
Minus that, I'm just not convinced that a Dwarf Commander is going to be even in the top five built from Hobbit.
James ChilcottHOST
If we look at early stats on EDH Rec for the top commanders from the set, we're looking at Smaug the Magnificent, Thranduil driving a tri-color elf deck, the Great Goblin, Beorn the Fierce, everybody that loves animals is going to build the bear deck, and then Tom, Bert, and William because they're hilarious.
James ChilcottHOST
There are the only dwarf in the top 10 is Thorin Mountain King, which is actually much more of an equipment deck than it is a dwarf deck.
Cliff DaigleHOST
Sure.
28 MINS LATER
Cliff DaigleHOST
I got a couple decks that would love to have this.
James ChilcottHOST
Really nice new land they printed for elves decks that'll be in every elf deck from here to Eternity.
James ChilcottHOST
Elven Passage, especially for Thranduil, where it's a three-color elf deck.
James ChilcottHOST
This is Tap, pay one life, sack the land, search the library for a basic, put it in a battlefield, tap.
RobertHOST
Welcome.
RobertHOST
So who is Legolas? He is introduced as a strange elf clad in green and brown, Legolas, a messenger from his father, Thranduil, the King of the Elves of Northern Mirkwood.
RobertHOST
And sure enough, the only substantive contribution we have from him at the Council of Elrond was a brief account of how Gollum managed to escape imprisonment in Northern Mirkwood.
RobertHOST
He was then selected by Elrond to be a part of the Fellowship to be a representative of the elves rather than because of any particular abilities over and above the other elves that he might have had.
RobertHOST
Legolas will almost certainly have been there at the time.
RobertHOST
So although the films took some liberties in making Legolas such a central character in The Hobbit movies, they weren't completely making it up.
RobertHOST
The elf king we see there isn't named in The Hobbit, but he is Thranduil, and he is Legolas' father.
RobertHOST
So that perhaps is the first thing that makes Legolas special.
Kim RenfroHOST
I wrote down, again, in this, like, in the intro kind of recapping how the dwarves got here, something about, like, you know, Smaug has attacked Erebor.
Kim RenfroHOST
They're rushing out, and then it's like King Thranduil is just, like, there with his army watching.
Kim RenfroHOST
[laughs]
Jessie EarlHOST
Yeah, he's like, "Nah, I'm gonna go away."
42 MINS LATER
Kim RenfroHOST
It's very, like, yes, isolated, and yeah, just largely unnecessary.
Jessie EarlHOST
Yeah, and, uh, I'll, I'll bring this up when we get to the end 'cause it, it kinda ties into something else.
Jessie EarlHOST
But, uh, the Elven king Thranduil imprisons the dwarves, but Bilbo helps them escape.
Jessie EarlHOST
A man from Lake-town named... [laughs] Here, that, that line is doing a lot of work for what we get in the movie.
JohnHOST
Being one of the Sylvan elves, Legolas is accustomed to the life of the forest.
JohnHOST
Indeed, he is the son of Thranduil, king of the woodland realm, and so a prince among them.
JohnHOST
Nevertheless, as his adventures with the Fellowship take him further west, an unexpected longing for the sea awakens within him.
JohnHOST
Even as he takes leave to wander the woods of Ithilien, he intones his song of the sea.
JohnHOST
Indeed, for Legolas, it's something of a prophecy, foretelling his final mysterious journey over the great sea, presumably into the Blessed Realm.
JohnHOST
Of course, it also opens up much of Legolas' identity to us.
JohnHOST
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
His grandfather was Oropher of Doriath, one of the Sindarin survivors of the First Age.
CrimPANELIST
this.
TomerPANELIST
What about like the Thranduils? There's two Thranduils that both have landfall that say whenever a land enters, you make a 1-1 elf token.
TomerPANELIST
So you could be cracking your fetches and ramping on your opponent's turns and you're making treasures and you're gaining life and you're doing stuff at the same time.
TomerPANELIST
I feel like that's actually really good.
8 MINS LATER
TomerPANELIST
But yeah, I was thinking about how many elf decks do I actually want to have Jahira in? Even if I have some token makers in the 99, that's not enough for me.
TomerPANELIST
I would want to have a commander that makes tokens, right? And there's not a lot of those.
TomerPANELIST
There's, like, the two Thranduils that are, like, mainfalls.
TomerPANELIST
I
JeffHOST
Yeah, she's dressed in these browns and greens that would easily blend her into any of Mirkwood's regions.
JeffHOST
You would know her immediately when you see her as Rodwyn, because she is a official emissary of your king, Thranduil.
JeffHOST
And she looks out at you and her head kind of cocked to the side.
JeffHOST
And she says,
speaker_2UNKNOWN
Are you? in contact with its chieftain, this Inglut? We are in contact with it.
speaker_2UNKNOWN
Good.
speaker_2UNKNOWN
Your King Thranduil wishes for you to make an introduction between this chieftain and myself, for we have tidings to share.
LongPANELIST
I'll let him know that.
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