Character Bios
Thranduil
Meaning: Halls of Star Shadow
Location(s): Greenwood the Great (Eryn Galen), Mirkwood (Taur-e-Ndaedelos or Taur-nu-Fuin), Eryn Lasgalen
Race/Species: Elf
Type/Kind: Sindar
Title(s): King of Mirkwood
Dates: II - IV
Parents: Oropher - father
Children: Legolas Greenleaf
Description:
"...at the head of a long line of feasters sat a woodland king with a crown of leaves on his golden hair."
Ch VIII, Flies and Spiders, The Hobbit.
Notes, Part Three: The Third Age, note 14, Unfinished Tales.
In a great hall with pillars hewn out of the living stone sat the Elvenking on a chair of carven wood. On his head was a crown of berries and red leaves, for the autumn was come again. In the spring he wore a crown of woodland flowers. In his hand he held a carven staff of oak.
Chapter IX, Barrels out of Bond, The Hobbit
Contributors:
Dim Genesis 12.17.02, with thanks to Nath.