Stupid Elf Tricks...

[Gurthang]

Snow, I conceed; that's not one of the points I am talking about, though. Perhaps a little chain-walking I can even live with. It's the fact that Legolas comes up as an untouchable character in certain situations, but he is not like that all the time.

'Oh, look, a huge hairy mumak. Instead of running away, I think I'll run towards it. Just a little grab, a couple simple swings up, kill a few enemies, cut a foot-thick rope, release a few arrows into a running oliphaunt's skull and slide down it's trunk like I was merely slicing cheese.'

Take that into contrast with a Legolas who can't even fight his way through a crowd to save Aragorn in RotK and you've got a pretty up-and-down character.

True, it is a fantasy universe, and so things can happen that aren't realistic, but it's more than that that bothers me. It's like PJ wants to use Legolas to shoot elves up on an unassailable pedestal. The stunts are something that an elf, even in a fantasy world, should not be able to do.