Legolas' Mother

Legolas' Mother is a posthumous heroine in The Hobbit film series. Apart from several mentions in the third and final film of Peter Jackson's film series, there is no mention of her in any of Tolkien's works and was created solely for the movie. 
She was the mother of one of the series' protagonists, Legolas, and the wife of Thranduil. Since Legolas and Thranduil speak highly of her, the Elvenqueen was a devoted and loving mother and wife to her husband and son. 
==Background==
The queen of Mirkwood may have been either a Lady, Princess or someone with a high status before becoming the Queen of Mirkwood. She was beloved by her son and husband. Thranduil gathered the White Gems of Lasgalen for her, but she never got to wear them.
During the Woodland Realm's War with the Kingdom of Angmar, the Elven-queen, defending by Orcs to Gundabad, where she died. After this, Thranduil receded from the world, caring only to preserve his realm and family, and the Woodland Realm (which was later known as the forest of Mirkwood became neutral with the war on Sauron. There was no grave for her son nor her husband to grieve, although Thranduil had a statue of her likeness posted at the Elven gate.
Thranduil was never given back the necklace that he had commissioned from Thrór for her. During the Quest of Erebor and the Battle of Five Armies, he was obsessed with retrieving it, to the point of marching to war. Ultimately, he had forgotten that his relationship with his son was of greater importance.
==Role in The Hobbit==
In The Battle of the Five Armies, Azog recently declared war on the heroes, causing Legolas to take his friend and elven companion Tauriel to Gundabad. When they were there, Legolas recalled his mother and told Tauriel that she died there after being tortured, and he is upset that he cannot ever grieve for her at her grave.
Thranduil mentioned to Legolas before he left to join Aragorn with the rangers of the North that his mother loved him more than anything, even life
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