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As Tolkien quoted on page 333 of Book of Lost Tales, "He was as tall as a young tree, lithe, immensely strong, able swiftly to draw a great war-bow and shoot down a Nazgul, endowed with the tremendous vitality of Elvish bodies, so hard and resistant to hurt that he went only in light shoes over rock or through snow, the most tireless of all the Fellowship", Legolas Greenleef, the Elven prince of the woodland realm of Mirkwood, and son of the great (and sassy) Elvenking Thranduil, is a master bowman with "the eyes of a hawk and ears of a fox" (as Gimli said he himself possessed in the Fellowship of the Ring), and is also a valued member of the Fellowship of the Ring.