You Only Die Once

by Snow Glows Blue

In canon, Legolas survived and lived a happy life in the Undying Lands. Here are nine ways that his ending could have gone a lot worse.

1. Still

The boy was stillborn.

If he had lived, he would have been named Legolas. Green Leaf, it meant, a symbol of Mirkwood's renewal at Sauron's defeat.

But he hadn't, and he wasn't.