... *glare*

[elaby]

Bear with me for a moment whilst I pretend to be intellectual and rant about unimportant things.

There's
a very small thing about Tolkien fanfic, Legolas fanfic in particular,
which irks me to no end... and that's the fact that nearly EVERY fic
makes a huge deal about Legolas being the "prince" of Mirkwood.

Yeah.
His father's Thranduil, the famed Elf King of Mirkwood from The Hobbit.
But not once does he (or anyone else, for that matter) refer to himself
as the Prince of Mirkwood. What IS it with these people, that they
simply MUST have Legolas be prancing about with heir-apparent
princeliness? It's not as if it must matter much to HIM, since he only
ever introduces himself as an Elf of Mirkwood. He only talks about his
father when the plot calls for it. Celeborn is the only one who says
anything about Thranduil being his dad, save Elrond when he's
introducing him (or the narrator, I don't remember.) No one treats him
like royalty. The Lothlorien Elves only treat him better and more
familiarly than the others (except Aragorn, of course) because he IS an
Elf, and their "northern cousin." It's like people just caught onto
that one little detail and run a marathon with it O_o Seriously. It's
not a big deal. The little fangirls who have their original characters
fall out of a tree and into the arms of the dashing prince of Mirkwood
make me wanna stab a pen into my temple.

But instead of listening to me rant, you should go see this girl's artwork. It's AMAZING. Gwah *_* The musculature... Hoo boy.

http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/loth/s/a/sabrar/sabrar.html

I
don't know if Elfwood allows direct linking... so there's the whole
address. Pretty things. Lots of dwarves, which isn't particularly my
bag, but the elves are worth it.

Oh, and if you want to read
something about Legolas's prince-ness that's a lot more intelligent
than my rant, read this. I may have plugged it already, though ^^;;

http://www.istad.org/tolkien/legolas.html