HELLO THERE HOOPY FROOD, HOW YOU BEEN *hugs*
yeah, Legolas is a lot more cautious than Gimli. Like, a lot. A LOT. It’s not that he’s more afraid? He’s doing this, after all, he’s putting pen to paper and writing it down, which is a very brave thing to do. But he has over 2000 years of family history with these people, and he is a prince, he has a high station to uphold… and he knows what his father has lost. nnngh idk, I wanted to find the young Legolas in that letter, the child we see in Midwinter. Like all his years and layers strip away. These are people he’s always looked up to, and he is
almost more
frightened of disappointment than he is of disapproval.
Gimli has plenty of trepidation too – but he’s very much of the ‘RIP THE BAND-AID OFF IN ONE GO, FAST AS POSSIBLE’ school of thought, lmao!!! “here’s the situation, I know you’re gonna hate it, someone stop Bofur laughing, do it for me please.” End of story.
he’ll chew it endlessly in his own mind, of course. But as he said before, what can be more scary than facing the entire horde of Mordor without a hope of victory? he’s totally riding on wings of HOLY SHIT WE WON, SOMEONE BUY ME A LOTTERY TICKET, audacious little thing!
HAHAHAHAHAHA LAINDAWAR THE GRUMPY TERRIER ELF AND HIS TEASING TALL YOUNGER BROS welp I’m definitely shorter than him, so he’d be able to look down his long aristocratic nose at me as well 🙂