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Thranduil, son of Oropher, was an Elven rex who ruled over the Woodland Realm in the Third Historic period. Though inherently cautious, his army was cardinal to victory in the Battle of Five Armies and he defended his realm against the forces of Sauron in the War of the Ring. He was the male parent of the Elven prince of Mirkwood, Legolas, who was a member of the Fellowship of the Ring.

In The Hobbit, Thranduil is referred to only as the Elvenking.

i Biography
- 1.1 Kickoff and Second Ages
- ane.2 3rd Age
  - 1.2.1 The Quest of Erebor
  - 1.ii.ii War of the Band
- 1.three 4th Age
2 Etymology
- ii.1 Titles
3 Portrayal in adaptations
- iii.1 The Hobbit film trilogy
- iii.2 Voice dubbing actors
- 3.3 Rankin/Bass'southward The Hobbit
- 3.4 Radio
- three.5 Video games
4 Gallery
five Translations
6 References

Biography

First and 2d Ages

Thranduil was the only son of Oropher, King of the Woodland Realm. He was born during the First Historic period, and lived in Doriath at some bespeak prior to the Second Kinslaying.^[ii] At the beginning of the Second Age, some Sindar traveled due east and Oropher somewhen founded the Elven realm in Greenwood the Great.

In SA 3434, Thranduil and his father fought in the Battle of Dagorlad. Oropher was slain and Thranduil returned to Greenwood with roughly a third of the army that had marched to war.^[2] He claimed his inheritance and became King of the Woodland Realm, reigning over the whole of Greenwood the Dandy.

Tertiary Age

As the Third Age progressed, however, a wizard known as the Necromancer (subsequently revealed to be Sauron returned) took over the abandoned Elven fortress of Amon Lanc and turned it into Dol Guldur. Under his malign influence the Greenwood grew dark, becoming known equally Mirkwood, and infested with Orcs and giant spiders. The Woods-elves of Mirkwood were reduced in number and retreated to lands in the north of Mirkwood. By the time of the events of The Lord of the Rings, Thranduil's title was King of the Elves of Northern Mirkwood.^[three]

In his realm, both Sindarin and Silvan Elvish were spoken,^[4] though not all members of his Woodland folk spoke Sindarin.^[2]

The Quest of Erebor

When Thorin II Oakenshield and company entered northern Mirkwood, the party encountered visions of a feast in the wood, which unknown to them was Thranduil'due south court ^[1] Different members of the party tried to enter the clearing where the feast was being held, but each time darkness would fall and the interrupter fell into a deep slumber. In this manner was Thorin separated from the visitor, and captured by Thranduil. He provided no information when interrogated, and Thranduil, in turn, sent him to the dungeon cave "not too gently, for they did not love Dwarves and thought he was an enemy".^[1] The rest of the party was captured shortly after and brought before Thranduil. When the political party proved uncooperative with Thranduil'due south questioning, he accused them of wandering in his kingdom without leave, interrupting their feast, and stirring up problem with spiders. They were sent to the dungeon as well, in split up cells and unaware that Thorin was captured.^[5]

Thranduil: "What were you doing in the forest?"
Thorin: "Looking for nutrient and drink, because we were starving."
Thranduil: "Accept him away and continue him rubber, until he feels inclined to tell the truth, fifty-fifty if he waits a hundred years."

— The Hobbit, "Flies and Spiders"

Bilbo shows the Arkenstone to the Elvenking and Bard, by Ted Nasmith

Subsequently the expiry of the dragon Smaug, Thranduil supported Bard the Bowman's claim of a share of the treasure the Dwarves recovered from the Lonely Mount, since Bard was a descendant of Lord Girion of Dale, and the treasure of that town had been taken past Smaug to the Lonely Mount.^[half-dozen]

Thranduil led the Elven forces in the Battle of V Armies. His army was positioned on the southern side of the Mountain, and was the beginning to accuse.^[7]

After the battle and Thorin's expiry, Thranduil took Orcrist, which was previously confiscated in Mirkwood, and laid it upon Thorin'due south tomb. The treasure was divided among Elves and Men, and Thranduil received the Emeralds of Girion. Bilbo, Gandalf and Beorn traveled with the Elf-host dorsum to Mirkwood but would not stay in the forest, even when Thranduil asked them to.^[8]

When Bilbo and Gandalf bade adieu, Bilbo gave Thranduil a necklace of silver and pearls. The rex gave Bilbo the title of "elf-friend" and returned with his host to their halls.^[8]

War of the Ring

During the War of the Ring, he sent his son Legolas to Rivendell, along with other Elves, to report Gollum'due south escape from Mirkwood.^[three] The gradually-established friendship between the Dwarf Gimli and Legolas afterward helped to reconcile Thranduil's people with the Dwarves.

When the forces from Dol Guldur later attacked Mirkwood, Thranduil repulsed the assault and had the victory. He came into an agreement with Celeborn that the southern office of Mirkwood would be counted equally East Lórien. Thranduil took the northern region equally far as the Mountains of Mirkwood; the wide woods betwixt Mirkwood and East Lórien was given to the Beornings and Woodmen. At this time too, Thranduil renamed Mirkwood Eryn Lasgalen, the Wood of Greenleaves.^[9]

Fourth Historic period

Afterward the fall of Sauron, Thranduil fixed the southern boundary of his realm as the Mountains of Mirkwood, and his realm flourished well into the Fourth Age.^[9] He may have stayed on as the rex of the Great Woods or left Eye-earth and departed to the Undying Lands.

Etymology

Thranduil is a Sindarin discussion for "Vigorous leap", from tharan ("vigorous")^[10] and ethuil ("spring"). It was said that the proper name "Thranduil" was of Lemberin language (later Avarin or Telerian), forth with other Sindarin names such as Legolas, Nimrodel, and Amroth among others.^[4]

Titles

Thranduil first appears as a character in The Hobbit, where he is not named. J.R.R. Tolkien refers to him every bit the elf-king or the rex,,^[1] and also by the titles Elvenking and King of the Elves of the Wood.^[eleven] The name Thranduil commencement appears in The Lord of the Rings, in which his title was given as the King of the Elves of Northern Mirkwood.^[3] Elsewhere in Tolkien'due south writings, he was also referred to as King of the Woodland Realm, a title he inherited from his father.

Portrayal in adaptations

"Such is the nature of evil. In time all foul things come forth."

—Thranduil in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

The Hobbit film trilogy

The Elvenking arrives at the Lonely Mountain

Lee Pace portrays Thranduil as a blond Elf with a crown of leaves and twigs in Peter Jackson'due south The Hobbit film trilogy, and is a major character in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. While the Dwarves of the Lonely Mountain are fleeing their domicile subsequently Smaug's assail, Thranduil, riding an Elven elk, arrives with an ground forces. Thorin sees them and asks for help, only Thranduil, realizing that he would just be leading his soldiers to their deaths, refuses, not wanting to risk the lives of his kin, causing Thorin to develop a strong dislike of the Elves. In the extended edition of An Unexpected Journey, it is revealed that King Thrór stole Thranduil'south gems from him and demanded payment from the Elvenking for return of his jewels, causing goodwill between Dwarves and Elves to run thin.

In The Hobbit: The Pathos of Smaug, Thranduil seems more arrogant and selfish than other Elves, affecting the esteem of the Woodland Realm. Thranduil appears on his throne afterwards the capture of Thorin and Company, and offers to release the Dwarves from captivity and assistance them in their quest if Thorin will return to Thranduil the gems Thrór had stolen from him. Thorin refuses, recounting Thranduil's refusal to help the Dwarves in the attack past Smaug on the Alone Mountain. As Thorin continues his narrative, Thranduil looks horrified and angry. He demands that Thorin should non talk to him of dragon fire, as Thranduil himself had suffered from it before, having "faced the great serpents of the North." He briefly shows a grisly illusion of past, severe burns on the left side of his face, including a missing cheek and an plainly blind left center, and asserts that it was Thrór's greed that incurred the dragon's wrath. He then orders his guards to take Thorin away.

Thranduil confronts Narzug, a captured Orc

Later, Thranduil confronts Tauriel, telling her that as a captain of the guard she must drive the Giant Spiders out of Mirkwood. She explains that new spiders would enter the kingdom after the previous ones were wiped out, and suggests sorties to destroy the spider'due south source outside the kingdom's boundaries most Dol Guldur, only Thranduil quickly dismissed this idea due to his isolationist doctrine. When she brings up that other lands would as well be susceptible to spiders, Thranduil says that he doesn't care about other lands. He mentions then that Legolas, his son, has grown fond of her but that she should not give him promise, because she is a common Silvan Elf and Legolas is the son of a king. Thranduil is once again seen when Legolas and Tauriel return with an Orc hostage, Narzug. He is interrogated but refuses to answer, mocking Tauriel about the impending expiry of a Dwarf. Thranduil dismisses Tauriel after she threatens to kill the Orc, commenting that he doesn't care near the death of ane Dwarf. Still, when Narzug begins to mock Thranduil about a coming great war, saying his chief Azog serves The Ane, the Elf-king swiftly decapitates the captive with a stroke of his sword, clearly fearful of what the Orc had revealed. When Legolas asks why he did that when the Orc could have told them more than, Thranduil replies, "There was no more than he could tell me." Reminded of his promise to complimentary the Orc, Thranduil replies, "I did free him. I freed his wretched head from his miserable shoulders." He then orders that all the gates to the kingdom to exist airtight, at present knowing that the dangers of war were upon them, stating that, "No one enters this kingdom, and no i leaves it."

Thranduil as shown during the Siege of Dale

In The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, an armoured Thranduil arrives in Dale upon a magnificent large elk, and gave supplies to the townsfolk who had lost everything to the dragon'south fire. Despite Bard'south thanks, he told him that his truthful purpose for coming was to reclaim a jewel necklace in Thorin'south possession - the White Gems of Lasgalen, which was revealed much later to be a remembrance of his late wife, who had died at the hands of the Witch-rex. Bard was aghast at the prospect of fighting for jewels, but Thranduil doubted that a Dwarf could exist reasoned with. Still, he agreed to requite Bard a chance to convince Thorin to give in. Bard failed, and Thranduil ordered his regular army to march.

Elsewhere, Legolas revealed to Tauriel that his mother (Thranduil's wife) had been taken prisoner to Gundabad, where she died, and Thranduil never spoke of her, as if she had never existed to begin with. When Gandalf arrived, he urged Thranduil and Bard to telephone call off the attack on the Lonely Mount, and informed him about Sauron's elaborate plans of taking the Mountain, which would enable him to eventually destroy all of Middle-earth. However, Thranduil refused to believe him, and accused him of reigniting the enmity betwixt Elves and Dwarves past urging Thorin and his Company to commence upon their quest and trying to save the Dwarves. Even after Bilbo Baggins gave them the Arkenstone and so that Thranduil could substitution this for his gems with Thorin in an effort to finish the fighting from materializing, a war most broke out, but Azog'southward arrival and Dáin'south departure to deal with the regular army of Orcs chosen it off. Initially, Thranduil was intensely reluctant to participate in the fight, just after Gandalf forced him to realize that it was madness to not fight the Orcs, he relented - sending his swordsmen into the fray, instructing his archers to rain downward death, and he himself wielded his broadsword skillfully against the forces of evil.

Even so, Azog realized that the armies could not fight on two fronts, and sent the rest of his army to Dale to cutting them off. This forced Thranduil to retreat to the urban center with Bard, Gandalf, Bilbo, and a large portion of his ground forces, leaving the Dwarves to fend for themselves. Upon his entry into the city, he was dismounted and surrounded, just easily killed his assailants and continually participated in the battle, just ended upwardly being aghast at how much Elven claret was spilled in defense of a Dwarven land, and rather than warning Thorin or helping Dáin, he attempted to take advantage of the respite to pull out. It was and then that he encountered Tauriel, who declared that he would non depart, for the Dwarves would die if he left, but his response was that it did non thing as the Dwarves were mortal. At this, Tauriel drew her bow and accused him of being a loveless person who viewed his life every bit more important than those of others. Thranduil retaliated by slicing her bow, telling her that what she felt for Kíli was non real, and asked if she was prepare to die for love.

This reduces Tauriel to tears, but before Thranduil had time to strike at her, Legolas intervened by hit down Thranduil's sword, and told him flatly that he would have to kill his son if he wished to slay her. Legolas and Tauriel then departed for Ravenhill, leaving Thranduil in shock. In a deleted scene, information technology was at this moment that Gandalf reminded him that his wife not only left him with gems, simply as well a flesh-and-blood son (Legolas), and asked him which did he think she would adopt him to value more, causing Thranduil to turn to Gandalf in a state of greater shock and grief.

It was unknown if Thranduil had a change of heart, and stayed to assist the Dwarves. However, after the battle ended and regretting his mistakes, he goes to Ravenhill lone to notice Legolas and Tauriel. He runs into Legolas, who confesses that he could not go back with him. Thranduil advises him to find the Dúnedain, for there was a young Ranger there whom he should meet - his father, Arathorn, was a good man, and he might become a great man himself. He went on to explain to Legolas that the Ranger'south name in the wild is "Strider", only his true proper name (Aragorn) is something he has to learn for himself, and he also confides in Legolas that his mother loved him more than anything else in this world. At this, father and son exchange a mutual gesture of adieu and affection, and Thranduil accepts Legolas' decision to be on his own.

The events of the Battle of Five Armies made Thranduil aware of his errors and that his obsession with the White Gems of Lasgalen had blinded him, and from this moment on he became more than humble. As Legolas left to go to the N, Thranduil found Tauriel weeping over Kíli'south corpse, and upon seeing him, she asked him why honey could hurt so much. Touched by the sight, along with the memory of his wife'due south decease at Angmar'due south hands, he replies "Because it was real", and agreed with her plan to bury Kíli. Though he was not seen after, it was safe to assume that subsequently the funerals and burials, he departed for Mirkwood.

Phonation dubbing actors

Strange Language	Phonation dubbing artist
Portuguese (Brazil) (Television set/DVD)	Guilherme Briggs
French (France)	Anatole de Bodinat
Spanish (Latin America)	Ricardo Tejedo
Spanish (Spain)	Dani Albiac
Italian (Italy)	Marco Foschi
Czech	Lumír Olšovský
German	Jaron Löwenberg
Hungarian	Ferenc Hujber
Shine	Piotr Grabowski
Japanese	Junpei Morita

Rankin/Bass's The Hobbit

Thranduil every bit he appeared in the 1977 blithe version of The Hobbit.

In the Rankin/Bass 1977 animated version of The Hobbit, Thranduil was voiced past Otto Preminger. In this version he is a golden-haired, balding, light-green-skinned existence whose people acquit lilliputian resemblance to the more human being-looking Elves led past Elrond. He captures Thorin'due south company after mistaking their arroyo for an attack, and despite their attempts to convince him otherwise he has them imprisoned. He and Bard after join forces to take the Solitary Mount, only to quickly join forces with Thorin'south army of Dwarves upon seeing the approach of the Goblin army.

Radio

In the 1968 BBC radio serial, he is voiced by Leonard Fenton.

Video games

Thranduil is too one of the playable Elven heroes in the real-time strategy game The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-globe Ii.

Thranduil in *The Lord of the Rings Online*

In The Lord of the Rings Online Thranduil's primeval appearances are during the War of the Concluding Alliance. He can exist found during the Battle of Dagorlad and later is seen during the Siege of Barad-dûr.

In the nowadays time, Thranduil is first encountered fighting in Mirkwood during the last days of the War of the Band. He joins the forces of Lord Celeborn and Lady Galadriel and after a cursory discussion their combined host moves on Dol Guldur where Galadriel brings down the fortress. Later on he and Celeborn renamed the forest Eryn Lasgalen and separate it into iii parts, giving the middle section to the Woodmen. Thranduil and then returns to his halls in Felegoth where his son Legolas and the thespian join him subsequently the One Band is destroyed. Thranduil's people have to deal with an unexpected situation when well-nigh of spiders in Mirkwood, except for the very young or very old ones, all of a sudden depart the wood en masse, traveling south to reply the phone call of the source of the new threat and preventing information technology from reaching his borders.

Gallery

Thranduil in BFME

Thranduil in a promotional image from The Pathos of Smaug

King Thranduil in his character poster

Thranduil's character pattern 1

Blueprint 2

Blueprint 3

Design 4

Design 5

Thranduil with Legolas in The Pathos of Smaug

Thranduil, the Elven rex.

Thranduil astride an Elven Elk

Translations

Foreign Language	Translated name
Amharic	ጥህራንዱኢል
Arabic	ثراندويل
Armenian	Թրանդուիլ
Belarusian Cyrillic	Трандуіл
Bengali	ঠ্রান্দুইল
Bulgarian Cyrillic	Трандуил
Catalan	Thrànduil
Chinese (Hong Kong)	瑟蘭督伊
Georgian	თრანდუილი
Greek	Θράντουιλ
Gujarati	થ્રેંડુઇલ
Hebrew	תראנדויל
Hindi	ठ्रन्दुइल
Japanese	スランドゥイル
Kannada	ಥ್ರಾಂಡುಯಿಲ್
Kazakh	Трандуил (Cyrillic) Trandwïl (Latin)
Korean	스란 듀얼
Kyrgyz Cyrillic	Трандуил
Macedonian Cyrillic	Трандуил
Marāthi	थ्रान्डुइल
Mongolian Cyrillic	Трандуил
Nepalese	ठ्रन्दुइल
Pashto	طهراندویل
Persian	تراندوئیل
Punjabi	ਥ੍ਰੈਂਡੁਇਲ
Russian	Трандуил
Sanskrit	ठ्रन्दुइल्
Serbian	Трандуилo (Cyrillic) Tranduilo (Latin)
Sinhalese	ට්රැන්ඩේලියා
Tajik Cyrillic	Трандуил
Tamil	ட்ஹ்ரந்துஇல்
Telugu	త్రన్డ్యూయిల్
Thai	ธรันดูอิล
Ukrainian Cyrillic	Тграндуіл
Urdu	ترندوال ?
Uzbek	Тҳрандуил (Cyrillic) Thranduil (Latin)
Yiddish	טהראַנדויל

References

↑ ^i.0 ^1.1 ^ane.2 ^ane.three The Hobbit, Chapter VIII: "Flies and Spiders"
↑ ^2.0 ^two.ane ^ii.2 Unfinished Tales, Part Ii: The Second Age, Chapter Iv: "The History of Galadriel and Celeborn", Appendices: Appendix B, The Sindarin Princes of the Silvan Elves"
↑ ^3.0 ^three.1 ^3.ii The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, Volume Two, Chapter Two: "The Council of Elrond"
↑ ^iv.0 ^iv.1 The History of Center-globe, Vol. XII: The Peoples of Middle-globe, II: "The Appendix on Languages", Languages at the end of the Third Age
↑ The Hobbit, Chapter IX: "Barrels Out of Bond"
↑ The Hobbit, Chapter Xvi: "A Thief in the Night"
↑ The Hobbit, Chapter XVII: "The Clouds Outburst"
↑ ^viii.0 ^8.one The Hobbit, Affiliate Xviii: "The Return Journey"
↑ ^9.0 ^9.1 The Lord of the Rings, Appendix B: The Tale of Years (Chronology of the Westlands), "The Great Years"
↑ Parma Eldalamberon 17, Words, Phrases and Passages in Diverse Tongues in The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
↑ The Hobbit, Chapter XIV: "Fire and Water"

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