May 16, 2003

Ambidextrous Legolas
Niphredil

Has anyone else noticed that Legolas can't seem to decide over which shoulder he should buckle his quiver? I have no problem with him changing shoulders, it seems to me quite reasonable that Elves would be ambidextrous, it's just that he seems to change shoulders at the oddest times.

Outside Fangorn, where they stand in front of the pile of charrred Orcs, his quiver is buckled on his right shoulder. He then follows Aragorn into Fangorn and lo and behold, somewhere along the line he's swapped to his left shoulder. He then says something about the forest being old and angry and his quiver is back on his right shoulder. Then gandalf comes along, and it's back on his left shoulder. If you check out the Legolas TTT screen captures on the War of the Ring website, you'll see exactly what I mean. I asked some of my friends if they had noticed this strange quiver changing phenomenon, but they said they hadn't. When Legolas was on screen, it wasn't his quiver they were looking at!