what kind of elf are the hobbit
The Elvenking arrives in the Lonely Mountain. Lee Pace portrays Thranduil as a blonde elf with a crown of leaves and twigs in Peter Jackson 's adaption of The Hobbit, and is a major character in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.
Titles. Thranduil first appears as a character in The Hobbit, where he is not named. Tolkien refers to him as the elf-king or the king, and also by the titles Elvenking and King of the Elves of the Wood.