Focusing on the film trilogy, The Lord of the Rings, Legolas is one of the main Elves in the story. As part of the Fellowship ...

Only Frodo s courageous and quick-thinking decision to tell Sam to start a fake fight, throwing the troop into disorder and letting them sneak away in the confusion, saves them from a grisly fate. 15.

Frodo had to be rescued by one of the Elves we need to get to know for this story to work—that is, Elrond, Arwen, or Legolas. Of the three, Arwen is clearly the logical choice.

An obvious way to introduce her, was by folding other characters into Arwen's story. In the books, Glorfindel was the elven lord or saved Frodo from the Nazgûl.

Liv Tyler's Arwen was famously cut out of the Battle of Helm's Deep in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. In retrospect, this was a mistake.