History Fanon / TolkiensLegendarium

** The term "Primordial Age" (Prednachalnaya Epokha), not appearing in any of Tolkien's writings, used to mean the Years of the Lamps and the Trees, as opposed to the Years of the Sun (the "proper" First Age).

** What hair color has Legolas? Creator/PeterJackson's adaptation of ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' might have settled the fan arguments. He's blond. The books make only [[http://www.ageofthering.com/tolkien/characters/legolas.php vague references]] to his hair color. In ''The Hobbit'', the Elvenking has gold hair. This king is Thranduil, father of Legolas; so it is plausible that Legolas inherited gold hair. ''The Lord of the Rings'' puts that most elves have dark hair, but is vague about Legolas. Some fans still believe that movie Legolas and book Legolas have different hair colors; the authors of ''FanFic/TheGamesOfTheGods'', ''FanFic/IAmNotAMarySue'' and ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9399845/5/What-Grace-Has-Given-Me What Grace Has Given Me]]'' defy the movie and write that Legolas has dark hair.

* ''Rohirric'' -- This adjective for Rohan is a fan invention. Wiki/{{Wikipedia}}'s article for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohirric Rohirric]] traces this word to Robert Foster, author of ''The Complete Guide to Middle-earth''. The word ''Rohirric'' puts the English suffix ''[[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ic -ic]]'' on the Sindarin word ''Rohirrim''.

** And now, he has his [[Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower first physical representation in any media as Halbrand]], but in human form, inflaming the debate of how Mairon should truly look like. The only consensus is that luckily, the actor is handsome enough to be any DemiGod form of Mairon.

More recently, the movie of ''Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney'' (2012) has a scene where the Elves of Rivendell serve vegetarian food to the Dwarves. But this is not in the book.

** Aragorn was [[ConvenientlyAnOrphan orphaned]] at two. This is downright contradicted by the Appendices to ''[=LoTR=]'': Aragorn's father died when he was two, but his mother lived until he was in his seventies.

* Fans often prefer the Noldor genealogy from Tolkien's drafts (where Orodreth was a son of Aegnor and Gil-Galad a son of Orodreth) to the one in the published Silm (where Orodreth is a brother to Aegnor, Finrod and Galadriel, and Gil-Galad is a son of Fingon). The hard canon genealogy makes more sense because of Gil-Galad's title as the High King of the Noldor, which would be impossible for him as a son of Orodreth.

** He is very often known in fanfics as "Legolas Greenleaf." Fans who do their research know that "Legolas" ''actually means'' "[[YouAreTheTranslatedForeignWord Greenleaf]]," which means that those fans are calling him "Greenleaf Greenleaf." Legolas Thranduilion[[note]] "son of Thranduil[[/note]] is one often-used alternative. Mind, the fact is that elves don't seem to ''have'' last names at all, given that none is ever mentioned in canon.
*** OTOH Galadriel's message to him via Gandalf starts "Legolas Greenleaf long under tree", so at least one use is canon.

** The two blue wizards, Alatar and Pallandro, are just barely canon. There are mentions in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' of there being five wizards, all told, but you'd have to look into the posthumous history of Middle-earth books, as well as Tolkien's letters, to learn their names, or anything about them. Even then, we don't learn much, and they even have alternate names, also supplied by Tolkien, Morinehtar and Rómestámo. However, as Saruman is known as Curunìr in Sindarin and Curumo in Quenya, and Gandalf is Olórin in Quenya and Mithrandir in Sindarin (also Tharkun, but we don't know by whom), these alternate names could just be translations. There have been reams of fan fiction about Alatar and Pallando, including images of them, and attributes such as being masters of the waters or the seas. Other fics stick to the semi-canon idea that Alatar was more affiliated with forests and Pallando was a scryer, or "Far-Seer".

** Fans are not sure how many elves have golden hair. ''[=LoTR=]'' Appendix F says of the elves, 'their locks were dark, save in the golden house of Finarfin' (or in older editions, 'house of Finrod'), but that isn't all true, because in ''The Silmarillion'', Finarfin is the son of Indis of the Vanyar, and the Vanyar have golden hair. Conflating elements from the books and movies, a common assumption after the movies was that, in Middle Earth, the remaining Elves have golden hair and the half-Elven have dark hair as this is how they are depicted on screen -- the Elves of Rivendell shown with dark hair and the Elves of Lórien and Mirkwood are shown with golden hair.

** Fans are not sure how many elves have golden hair. ''[=LoTR=]'' Appendix F says of the elves, 'their locks were dark, save in the golden house of Finarfin' (or in older editions, 'house of Finrod'), but that isn't all true, because in ''The Silmarillion'', Finarfin is the son of Indis of the Vanyar, and the Vanyar have golden hair. Conflating elements from the books and movies, a common assumption after the movies was that, in Middle Earth, the remaining Elves have golden hair and the half-Elven have dark hair as this is how they are depicted on screen -- the half-Elves of Rivendell shown with dark hair and the Elves of Lórien and Mirkwood are shown with golden hair. The movies do not distinguish between the half-Elven and the Elves at all; they are all referred to as Elves.

** The idea was actually started in Bored of the Rings back in 1960s. In that book it was played for laughs as the residents of each higher circle behaved like insufferable snobs to the guys one circle lower.