[Purple Elf]

KK hang, on this might not be perfectly correct but ill try others please correct me! Riight<BR>1) Legolas Greenleaf is a mirkwood elf, a prince in fact they are known to be wilder than the high elves of Lothlorien, (even though Legolas is of high elven decent) they are from very different parts of middle earth and do not visit each other often so this is probably why he seems "not part of the clan".<BR>2)Half elves are, i think, elves which have some human blood in their ancestry, hence the brown hair rather than the blond of the mirkwood and high elves, The choice of mortality for elves as i know is some thing elrond and his twin brother, who i cant remember the name of, had to do, they were given the choice of which race to be counted in elves or men Elrond chose the elves and gained imortality for himself and his decendents, for,i gather, as long as he was with them, and his twin chose to be counted in the race of men, was mortal and becam the direct ancestor of Isildur and therefore Aragorn, for more info look on the middle earth encyclopiedia (thats where i got this from, under Elrond)<BR>3)Uruk hai, ok im lookin in the books for this one, erm they are orks as Aragon states in TTT in the chapter the Riders of Rohan "Among the slain are none of the great Orks with the strange badges" and eomer says "We found none but Orcs" but i think they were bred especially by Saruman as they could carry on marching with Merry and Pippin even during daylight when normal orks would not. oo i just found it in the treebeard chapter hang this might be long "He (Saruman) has taken up with foul folk, with the Orks. Brm, hoom! Worse than that: he has been doing something to them; somethig dangerous.For these Isengarders are more like wicked Men. It is a mark of evil things that came in the Great Darkness that they cannot abide the sun; but Saruman's Orks can endure it, even if they hate it. i wonder what he has done? Are they Men he has ruined, or has he blended the races of Ords and Men?" this is what we get from the books in the film i think they say it is Ork's and Goblins also in the film they say Orks are elves corrupthed by Sauron but in the book treebeard says they are mockerys of Ents made by Sauron in the dark times.<BR>4) finally only the Ni neKings of Men who took the rings of power became Nazgul as they were weak and greedy for power and so Sauron could control them. Both Elrond and Galadrael have rings of power but they are stronger than the men and wont be controlled, there was another but i cant remember, and the dwarven rings were lost.<BR> hope this has helped.