Eomer, upon seeing the dead body of his uncle, the King: Alright, we will fight in his honour, and defeat our foes. Everyone, form ranks!
Eomer, seeing the (seemingly) dead body of his sister moments later: FUCK IT WE BALL!!!!!
Legolas has no idea how old he is. None.
He has a general, ball park idea of his age, he can (usually) guess it within 20- 30 or so years. But that’s all.
He lost count somehwere in his first thousandth years of life and never bothered to figure it out again.
However, if you ask him his age he will tell you WILDLY different answers that seem to be randomly selected out of thin air.
Pippin: Legolas, how old are you?
Legolas: I am 8987 years.
Aragorn: Okay no, Ada isn’t even 8000 years old yet. Try again.
Legolas: I am 72 years old.
Aragorn: And you certainly arnt younger than me.
Legolas: I am 678 years old.
Aragorn: I also feel like that is incorrect.
Legolas: I am 3000 years old.
Aragorn: Much more plausible, but still, I think, incorrect.
Legolas: I am exactly 8 years old.
Aragorn: why are you the way that you are
Legolas: :)
Elves actually count time in a period called a yén iirc, equivalent to 144 of our years.
So it’s not that Legolas doesn’t know how old he is. He just wants to put things in measurements his friends can understand, but he’s very bad at math.
The assumption that Legolas doesn’t know hold he is contains the prerequisite that he either A) forgot the year he was born or B) doesn’t know what year it currently is and is actively working to uphold that ignorance
and I don’t know which one is funnier
When I wrote this it was under the assumption it was scenario A, that he just totally forgot what year he was born.
However. Now I kinda want it to be scenario B because that’s just so funny to me. I feel like it’s just a weird personal challenge for him now to see how long he can go without figuring out what year it is.
Whenever he annoys his father too much, Thranduil starts saying that days date and it sends Legolas scrambling for cover with his fingers in his ears and humming loudly.
I can’t quite believe this hasn’t been said before but elves count begetting days, not birthdays, so here we are given some extra options of A) thranduil just never told him out of awkwardness (unlikely) B) thranduil and his wife were just randy bastards and never stopped to check C) legolas doesn’t want to tell his friends the precise date and year his parents were fuckin
I CANNOT BELEIVE I FORGOT THEY CELEBRATE BEGETTING DAYS.
For your consideration:
It is a combination of both B & C : Thranduil and his wife were doing the do all the freckin time so Legolas basically only has a timeframe of dates he could’ve possibly been conceived on and Legolas doesn’t want his friends to know how incredibly horny his parents were
So instead of a begetting day party they just party two weeks long.
No one questions it because all the wood elves love to party and Thranduil is like well I know how long elves are usually pregnant so it has to be in this …month
