He'll be the first to say that it involves a lot of walking. One should get involved in saving the world if they do not like to walk. It helps if there are many shoulders, many hands, many feet to bear the burdens. Easier if it is one task at a time.
('Take the Ring to Mordor' is a pretty daunting task, though. Legolas doesn't remember the Inquisition mentioning anything about a Ring of... whatever their enemy is. Not much mentioning of anything, really.)
"Andraste is wise." He nods solemnly. He has no idea who or what Andraste is, except that name is dropped pretty often among the crowd. 'Maker', too, when he can recognize the term. It's easy to guess what they're referring to, though he might be a tad off where Andraste is concerned. "Without hope, all war is meaningless."
Legolas watches the people for a while longer after she speaks. They look... hale enough. Not worn down and trodden, as they had been in Edoras. Perhaps a little lost; but what they have lost, he cannot tell. A mother, a father. A leader. A hero. He thinks he can see clearly how they would mourn and grieve, and then stand up again. Man and Elf and-- yes, that is a Dwarf --Dwarves alike. And that... big one with the horns. That one too.
"The strongest person I have ever known was a Hobbit, near half my size," he says, musing, and fond, and worried. "He took upon him a burden greater than himself, for a purpose greater than he could have ever imagined, and I fear he will never be the same, for what it did to him... Yet I do not think he would have succeeded if not for those who went with him, his friends, and those sworn to protect him."
If he sounds mournful, he is. Frodo was so ill when he arrived in Rivendell, and so ill again when they brought him to Gondor. He was so small.
"If we stand together, I think there is nothing we cannot endure. And for those who would not stand with us--" He does not cast a glance at a Man, or Elf, or Dwarf, for there were all kinds who argued about the Fellowship. "--we must find others who will."
A pause. He brightens up with a little glimmer in his eyes, like an untold joke. "The second strongest being the Provost Thranduil, of course."
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('Take the Ring to Mordor' is a pretty daunting task, though. Legolas doesn't remember the Inquisition mentioning anything about a Ring of... whatever their enemy is. Not much mentioning of anything, really.)
"Andraste is wise." He nods solemnly. He has no idea who or what Andraste is, except that name is dropped pretty often among the crowd. 'Maker', too, when he can recognize the term. It's easy to guess what they're referring to, though he might be a tad off where Andraste is concerned. "Without hope, all war is meaningless."
Legolas watches the people for a while longer after she speaks. They look... hale enough. Not worn down and trodden, as they had been in Edoras. Perhaps a little lost; but what they have lost, he cannot tell. A mother, a father. A leader. A hero. He thinks he can see clearly how they would mourn and grieve, and then stand up again. Man and Elf and-- yes, that is a Dwarf --Dwarves alike. And that... big one with the horns. That one too.
"The strongest person I have ever known was a Hobbit, near half my size," he says, musing, and fond, and worried. "He took upon him a burden greater than himself, for a purpose greater than he could have ever imagined, and I fear he will never be the same, for what it did to him... Yet I do not think he would have succeeded if not for those who went with him, his friends, and those sworn to protect him."
If he sounds mournful, he is. Frodo was so ill when he arrived in Rivendell, and so ill again when they brought him to Gondor. He was so small.
"If we stand together, I think there is nothing we cannot endure. And for those who would not stand with us--" He does not cast a glance at a Man, or Elf, or Dwarf, for there were all kinds who argued about the Fellowship. "--we must find others who will."
A pause. He brightens up with a little glimmer in his eyes, like an untold joke. "The second strongest being the Provost Thranduil, of course."