Lee Pace as the Elvenking Thranduil, ruler of the Woodland Realm of Mirkwood.

In the Second Age an Elven people settled in the Greenwood, founding the Woodland Realm, with its capital on the hill Amon Lanc.

Radagast usually allies with the Dwarves or the Woodland Realms, while Gandalf usually allies with Rohan, Gondor or the Fellowship.

Orlando Bloom as Legolas: Prince of the Elves' Woodland Realm and a skilled archer.

In the early part of the Second Age, the Woodland Realm was established in Greenwood the Great by a lord of the Sindarin Elves who had migrated eastward from Lindon.

Oropher of Doriath fled to northern Mirkwood where he established the Woodland Realm, with his small minority of Sindar nobles ruled over a predominantly Silvan population.

He is an Elf of the Woodland Realm and one of nine members of the Fellowship of the Ring.

Legolas was the son of Thranduil, King of the Woodland Realm of Northern Mirkwood, who appears as "the Elvenking" in The Hobbit.

The realm of Lothlórien was similar to the Woodland Realm in that a community of Silvan Elves was ruled by a non-Silvan minority, namely Galadriel and Celeborn.

One only of us is an Elf, Legolas from the Woodland Realm in distant Mirkwood.