Elf bow and quiver9/24/2023 I recall reading in the LOTR wiki that Legolas does indeed run out of arrows, and when that happens he has two knives that he uses as weapons. One might presume that he ran out of arrows. In the movie, at the Battle of Helm's Deep, Legolas is seen using two knives instead of his bow and arrow. But instead, he revels in it and turns it into a competition with his friend. Although Orcs are "evil", and their enemies in this battle and the wider war, they are still sentient creatures and I would have thought Legolas - as a "good" Elf - would at least show some form of regret at the necessity to slaughter them. On a side note, I've always found this set of exchanges between Legolas and Gimli to be faintly disturbing. (And yes, he does later go on to use a knife, saying to Gimli: "It has been knife-work up here.") But that is only a few leaves in a forest.' 'I have done better, though now I must grope for spent arrows all mine are gone. He had returned to his place on the wall. 'And I,' said Legolas, 'will take all the arrows that I can find, for my quiver is empty.' He searched in the pile on the ground about and found not a few that were undamaged and longer in the shaft than such arrows as the Orcs were accustomed to use. Twice - in the very battle you mention at the end of Fellowship, and again in the battle of Helm's Deep - he is explicitly described as running out of arrows and having to hunt around for more: This might be true in the movie, but certainly not in the books.
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