Drunk Elves

[Wolfie65 1273xp 0]

In LotR , Gimli and Legolas engage in a drinking contest, in which Gimli ends up falling off a chair unconscious, while the only effect on Legolas is a slight tingling in his fingers.

In The Hobbit, Bilbo is able to free the Dwarves because the Elves guarding them are asleep, dead drunk. I think Thranduil better have a word with those guys because they must have quaffed absolutely MASSIVE amounts of veritas in order for that to happen, thusly allowing the Hobbit burglar to spring his 13 employers…..

[athelstane 708xp 0]

Three things come to mind:

a)  The wine is much stronger than the beer, maybe a form of Port, especially made for the Elves?

b) The elves are used to drinking large quantities of beer and the dwarves are not?

c)  The makers of LoTR didn’t know/care about the lore enough to research the matter when they decided to include this incident?

I’m leaning towards c)

[limburger]

If it hadn’t been for Bilbo’s ring they would never have been able to catch the elves partying outside and they’d been dead long before coming close to the location where the elves were living.

Who would be stupid enough to get in there and steal things ?

As such the guards had literally nothing to guard against.
That’s why they could afford to drink themselves silly.

I’d imagine that Legolas wasn’t really drinking because he was on an important mission for his people at that time. Dwarves are used to waking up drunk so they don’t mind as much.

Also :
(1) the plot needed to happen
(2) it was a funny interlude

• This reply was modified 1 day, 1 hour ago by limburger.

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