About Legolas' bow - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Cúdae · 02-09-2003, 07:45 PM

The bow from Lothlorien probably was mallorn. As to Mirkwood... the forest itself is supposedly a forest of "beech and oak" therefore, I'd be willing to say you would do well with either of those trees. Yew was a common wood though and, from my own wooden bow, maple is bendable enough to work.

That probably didn't help you very much, but they are some possible answers. I would cast my lot with beech or oak though. And more so with beech because oak is quite the tough wood.

02-09-2003, 07:45 PM	#1
Cúdae Wight Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Boston, Massachusetts Posts: 160	The bow from Lothlorien probably was mallorn. As to Mirkwood... the forest itself is supposedly a forest of "beech and oak" therefore, I'd be willing to say you would do well with either of those trees. Yew was a common wood though and, from my own wooden bow, maple is bendable enough to work. That probably didn't help you very much, but they are some possible answers. I would cast my lot with beech or oak though. And more so with beech because oak is quite the tough wood. __________________ "And if you listen very hard/ The tune will come to you at last/ When all are one and one is all/ To be a rock and not to roll." --Led Zeppelin "Stairway to Heaven"