The Company of the Ring, also called the Fellowship of the Ring and the Nine Walkers, is a fictional group of nine representatives from the free peoples of Middle-earth: Elves, Dwarves, Men, and Hobbi
Scholars have likened the Company of the Ring to the Knights of the Round Table. Detail of The Arming and Departure of the Knights, 19th-century tapestry by Edward Burne-Jones, William Morris, and John Henry Dearle
The members of the Company as portrayed in Peter Jackson's 2001 film The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. From left to right: (top row) Aragorn, Gandalf, Legolas, Boromir, (bottom row) Sam, Frodo, Merry, Pippin, Gimli. The casting is widely admired. Even Tolkien scholars hostile to the films admired the casting and costumes. The hobbits and dwarf were made to appear to scale by methods including scale doubles of film sets, forced perspective,
Legolas is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. He is a Sindar Elf of the Woodland Realm and son of its king, Thranduil, becoming one of the nine members of the Fellowshi
Legolas in Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated version of The Lord of the Rings