What's Wrong with Legolas?

Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings film franchise comprised six films from 2001 to 2014. The vast number of major characters from Tolkien's novels are hard to keep straight for a casual fan, but die-hard LOTR fans are still exploring and critiquing each of them for their unique qualities, their contributions to the plot, and their accuracy to the original books. And that brings us to Legolas.

Despite the epic lengths of the movies, Jackson had to compress everything from Tolkien's saga to fit it into theaters. Nerdstalgic takes up the question of which character got the short end of the stick because of that and finds that it is Legolas. The elf is a fierce warrior, yet among the major characters in the story, he really gets nothing else to do. We never find what makes him anything but a fierce warrior, as we do the other characters. He is stuck in the "Superman" role, with no weaknesses, no imperfections, and no real personality lurking underneath. (via Digg)