Legolas
Grandson of Oropher, who ruled a great realm of Silvan Elves in Greenwood the Great (later to be called Mirkwood). Oropher went to the War of the Last Alliance, where he was slain with two-thirds of his army, but his son Thranduil survived and returned to rule his father's woodland kingdom.
Son of Thranduil, King of the Wood-elves who dwelt in northern Mirkwood; he fought at the Battle of Five Armies ,went to war at his father's side in the War of the Last Alliance. Upon Oropher's death, Thranduil returned to rule his father's woodland kingdom.
THRANDUIL and OROPHER
HISTORY: Lord Oropher and his small band of Sindar, who had left their homelands for reason still unknown, merged themselves completely with the Silvan people of the Wood, leaving behind their Sindarin inheritance. That's why Oropher's grandson Legolas thinks of himself as a Silvan Elf, rather than one of the Sindar. Of the Sindarin Elves
Long before the beginning of the First Age, the Elves of the Great Journey travelled westward through many lands to find a new home. Coming to the Great River Anduin and the high peaks of the Misty Mountains, some of the Elves of the clan of the Teleri fell away from the journey, and settled in the woodlands east of the Mountains. These were the original Silvan Elves, who lived on either side of the River. At this time in their history, all of this people still lived close together, with some dwelling in the land that would later be called Lórien, and the others settling around the hill of Amon Lanc in the far south of Greenwood the Great.
It must have been in the time these Elves were living closely together that the Silvan Elvish language appeared. As history passed, the Elves would move away from one another, and mingle with other Elvish peoples, so that the Silvan branch of Elvish would eventually become extinct. Nonetheless, relics of that ancient tongue survived in some well-known place-names and personal names, such as Caras Galadhon, Amroth and even Lórien itself.
The Silvan Elves dwelt in their twin woodland realms for many centuries, but in the Second Age the emerging power of Dark Lords began to drive them apart. Oropher was the ruler of the Elves who dwelt in the Greenwood, and he began to seek safety by moving his people northwards, away from Amon Lanc and away from the Silvan Elves who lived to the west of the Great River.
Legolas rides Arod a white stallion whose original owner died in the Great War with the orcs.
Galadriel’s Gift: Bow of the Galadhrim and a quiver of arrows
CREED OF THE SINDARIN ELVES
Never attack another elf, except in self defence.
The elven race has been stifled by humanity.
Elves should be protected at any cost.
There is no higher calling than to die for the protection of another elf.