Gimli, by one Orc. He killed 42, while Legolas killed 41. Legolas was ahead early in the game, but his tally slowed once he ran out of arrows and had to start using his knife. Gimli, meanwhile, had plenty of opportunities to use his axe.
Though Gimli officially wins the kill count at the Battle of Helm's Deep, there is an argument that, in the films anyway, Legolas is the real winner due to the sheer numbers of Uruk-hai we see him fell during the battle – including all of those upon the huge siege ladder he sends crashing to the ground with a well- ...
Legolas tells Gimli that his final count is 42 Uruks. This would not have included the ladder of Uruks he toppled and would be referring to the direct kills.
Gimli really represents the best of dwarven warriors while Legolas represents the strength and skill of the elves. Gimli is extremely strong and able to hold his ground against many enemies at once. He's particularly suited to close combat, and he's an expert at using axes.
At end of battle when Gimli sees Legolas he yells out the his count is 42 and Legolas concedes his number being 41. I think Legolas let his new Dwarf buddy win to make him happy.
Legolas : Final count, forty-two. Gimli : Forty-two? Oh, that's not bad for a pointy-eared elvish princeling.
Gimli is 139 during the events of The Lord of the Rings. Dwarves have an average lifespan of 250 years; thus, being young and strong, he was selected by Elrond to represent the Dwarves as part of Frodo's company.
He does not rank with history's greatest elf warriors, who were on an entirely different level than him. Legolas was not out of the ordinary. He was an elf-lord, and elf-lords do tend to be better in a fight than ordinary elves.
Luthien was the most potent elf; in Middle Earth, she was also known as Tinviel. She was able to captivate Morgoth and conquer death because she was the sole offspring of an Elven monarch and the Maia spirit.
Húrin is a fictional character in the Middle-earth legendarium of J. R. R. Tolkien. He is introduced in The Silmarillion as a hero of Men during the First Age, said to be the greatest warrior of both the Edain and all the other Men in Middle-earth.
Elrond : The ring cannot be destroyed, Gimli, son of Gloin, by any craft that we here possess. The ring was made in the fires of Mount Doom. Only there can it be unmade.
In the books, at least at helms deep, Gimli actually wins. In the films Legolas wins by a landslide. There are many scenes where Legolas shoots Orcs with his bow before anyone else even starts fighting.
Eventually, Legolas came to Ithilien with some of his people, with his father's leave, to live out his remaining time in Middle-earth helping to restore the devastatedforests of that war-ravaged land.
It is later mentioned that Tauriel is a talented warrior and was therefore made leader of the Mirkwood border guards. Legolas, the son of Mirkwood's Elven king Thranduil, is indicated to be attracted to her, but as she is a lowly Silvan Elf, she does not believe herself worthy of him.
Round 1: Aragorn wins. He's a great swordsman, and would win sword to sword. If legolas tries to use a bow at 20 ft (which Aragorn can cover in a couple of seconds), he'll only get one shot before Aragorn's in close and killing him.
Galadriel's prophecy was fulfilled: as Legolas heard the cries of seagulls, he experienced the Sea-longing — the desire to sail west to Valinor, the "Blessed Realm", latent among his people. He fought in the Battle of the Pelennor Fields and at the Black Gate, and watched as Sauron was defeated and Barad-dûr collapsed.
Arwen is described as the “most beautiful of the last generation of High Elves in Middle-earth,” and can summon powerful water spirits. She goes out of her way to always help those in need as well. One of the more important things she does is unite Elf and Man in peace again, like Beren and Lúthien before her.
His prowess with a bow was unmatched among the Fellowship and, as J.R.R. Tolkien stated himself, Legolas was “endowed with the tremendous vitality of Elvish bodies,” as well as an inability to feel terrible hurts, which made it easy for him to travel long distances over rough terrain in only light shoes.
Thranduil is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium. He first appears as a supporting character in The Hobbit, where he is simply known as the Elvenking, the ruler of the Elves who lived in the woodland realm of Mirkwood.
WEAKNESSES: One disadvantage to the sheltered life that Legolas has lived is the fact that he is far too quick to follow the orders of his father without really questioning them - though, there is later exceptions to this rule.
The actor is suffering from Legolas Syndrome — where you accidentally get cast into a role that suits you far more than your real-life looks, leaving you with a tricky predicament after the wrap party. Do you A) nick all the costumes and stay in character the rest of your working life, or B)
Legolas was a nice little Elf princeling yet he was nothing next to the Elven king Gil-Galad. So no, Aragorn and Legolas could not defeat Sauron in hand-to-hand combat.
That said, the people behind the “official movie guide” for The Lord of the Rings list Legolas as being born in the year 87 of the Third Age of Middle-earth, which makes him some 2,931 years old around the time of the War of the Ring, which happened over 3,000 years into the Third Age of Middle-earth.
No, he is not. All the Dwarves who survived the battle against Smaug are still alive, and they rule a Dwarven Kingdom. At the time of the Council of Elrond, you can see Glóin at the counvil, and there were kings after him as well in Middle-Earth, so Gimli is hardly the last of his race.
John Rhys-Davies, the actor who portrays Gimli the dwarf in The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, is actually the tallest member of the Fellowship at 6'1”.