Legolas/Éowyn
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| Pairing: | Legolas/Éowyn |
| Alternative name(s): | Legowyn, L/E |
| Gender category: | M/F |
| Fandom: | Lord of the Rings |
| Canonical?: | No |
| Prevalence: | Uncommon |
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Legolas/Éowyn is a het pairing in Lord of the Rings fandom.
Canon
Appeal
Why Legolas & Éowyn? After all, Elf/Human relationships are extremely rare, and even more than that, Legolas and Éowyn had no dialogue, no interaction whatsoever in either book or film. So why bother pairing them up?I will be honest, at first it was because i thought they looked good together, but there is more to it than that. They are both brave warriors. Neither talks excessively, but when they do speak, what they say is both eloquent and intelligent (obviously, this doesn't go for Legolas in the films, but we shall overlook that). They are in a desperate and tumultuous situation, where both could offer the other something that would help them make it through. Their relationship would also be an interesting contrast and comparison to the relationship of Aragorn and Arwen.
There is a certain amount of freedom involved in having a Fanon pairing, especially where Legolas is involved as he carries virtually no baggage. But what of Éowyn, with Aragorn and Faramir? How would adding the extra angle of Legolas reshape the storyline? There are infinite possibilities, all just waiting to be imagined.
— aracelis for The Path Not Taken, c. 2004 [1]
Why ship Legolas and Eowyn?Obviously, they look good together.
Some writers who ship Legolas/Eowyn are inspired by the tragic potential of the pairing—by the fact that one is mortal, the other elven; that one will age, the other will not; that anything but the most fleeting union between them is impossible; and that Legolas, whether as a lover or a friend, must one day watch Eowyn die. As a result, some beautifully bittersweet L/E Stories have been written.
Other writers, myself included, are attracted to a pairing of two warriors that has all the advantages of slash without actually being slash. Legolas is not a typical male, Eowyn is not a typical female, and their relationship is not typical male-female. So, within a single scene, they may shift (and I'm not just talking about sex) from male-female to female-male or to male-male or to female-female.
— ningloreth for ship_manifesto, 2006 [2]
Example Fanworks
Fanfiction
- The Price of Freedom by Erin Lasgalen[3] — Adventure AU diverging from canon after the War of the Ring (2003–2004)
Fanart
Meta
- Leaf and Flower: Legolas & Eowyn by ningloreth for ship_manifesto (February 2006)
Links and Resources
- Éowyn/Legolas Greenleaf tag at Archive of Our Own
- [Legolas, Eowyn] pairing filter at FanFiction.Net
- The Path Not Taken, a Legolas/Eowyn fansite, fanlisting, and archive founded in 2002
- Warriors' Glory, a Legolas/Eowyn fansite and archive c. 2004 (archive link)
- Eryn Carantaur, ningloreth's Legolas/Eowyn fanfiction site with a fic listing
- legolas_eowyn, a Livejournal community
- Golden: Noteworthy LegolasEowyn Fiction, a FFN C2 community
References
- ^ The Path Not Taken - Why?, archived 22 October 2004 by the Wayback Machine.
- ^ ningloreth in ship_manifesto on LiveJournal. Leaf and Flower: Legolas and Eowyn, posted 20 February 2006.
- ^ Also posted at Stories of Arda and previously erinlasgalen.tripod.com (archived 21 July 2013).