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Title: Leaf and Flower: Legolas & Eowyn
Author: ningloreth
Fandom: The Lord of the Rings
Pairing: Legolas/Eowyn
Spoilers: Some spoilers for the book and the film trilogy; slight spoilers for the fan fiction discussed.
Author’s Notes: This essay is slightly longer than 5000 words—but, then, the book is slightly longer than the average book, and the films are slightly longer than the average film… It also contains a lot of pictures, so it may take a while to open.

It's also a bit early ;-)

PS: The links should now be fixed!

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Just in case there is anyone in the world who has never heard of Legolas… He is an elf, and Eowyn is a human woman, and both characters appear in JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and in Peter Jackson’s film adaptations.

Broadly speaking, there are two types of LOTR fan fiction: bookverse and movieverse—and, for some reason, movieverse stories are often considered inferior to bookverse.

I would classify my own Legolas/Eowyn stories as movieverse (though set, for the most part, after the films), with additional material from the books (including The Hobbit and some of the other writings), and influenced by other writers’ fan fiction.

My discussion of Legolas and Eowyn here also mixes these sources.


( Leaf and Flower: Legolas and Eowyn )