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Do we have to?
Officially, it's titled "legolas." But this legendary badfic has become inextricably linked with its author in the minds of the [[The Lord of the Rings]] fandom, with good reason, and it is now generally known as "legolas by laura", complete with lack of capitalisation.
The story can be found [https://web.archive.org/web/20120615115007/http://www.freewebs.com/me_gaya/legolas.html here], courtesy of the [[Protectors of the Plot Continuum]]. All The Tropes will take no responsibility for brain damage suffered should you choose to read it.<ref>
▲The story can be found [http://www.freewebs.com/me_gaya/legolas.html here], courtesy of the [[Protectors of the Plot Continuum]]. All The Tropes will take no responsibility for brain damage suffered should you choose to read it.<ref> [[Driven to Suicide|*Cttttlik!* *BANG!*]] </ref> The [http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=legolas+by+laura&search_type=&aq=f dramatic readings] may help to soften the blow. There is also a review done by [[The Fan Fiction Critic]] for it, which might help more. And now a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IECKGp-tLb0 live-action trailer], complete with ''[[My Chemical Romance]]'' and a baffling shoutout to ''[[Megatokyo]]''. God help us all. There's also a riffing found [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5948484/9/Mystery_Science_Theater_1000 here] and a PPC mission [https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1PZ2DmYKQ2Z0-sW425KcdTXyUBkTURKfn8RiUxUKum44 here].
Compare with ''[[My Immortal]]'' and ''[[My Inner Life]]''.
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* [[Aerith and Bob]]: This girl's name is "Laura". In Middle-earth. The author's name also seems to be Laura. [[Self Insert|My oh my...]]
** That [[Fridge Logic|may actually not be a problem.]] See [[Bilingual Bonus]] below (though it might not have been intentional).
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* [[Beige Prose]]: Alice: Elmer Fudd is giving English classes, I see.
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: "Laure" actually is a Noldorin word, meaning "golden". However, it's unlikely the author knew this unless it really is a [[Stealth Parody]], and Legolas is a Sindarin elf and wouldn't use the Noldorin language.
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* [[Black Comedy Rape]]: Unintentionally.
* [[Blind Idiot Translation]]: It isn't one, but it really does read as if it was. "Mean while Gandalf is have a fun time trying to distory the dark lord"?
* [[Call on Me]]: Possibly an example (it's hard to say), when Gandalf manages to make the hobbits appear by just wishing for them.
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* [[Cold-Blooded Torture]]: In order, every time, both Laura ''and'' Legolas were 'bet' up, raped, and then were given poison.
* [[Common Mary Sue Traits]]: Laura "got a power and she can distoy us all the bad guys".
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* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: Gandalf and ''Sauron''. If you're familiar with the backstory, this isn't necessarily as one-sided a match as you might think if you just saw the movie. Gandalf and Sauron are both beings of the same order (the Maiar... basically, angels, though Sauron is very definitely of the "fallen" brand). It still wouldn't be a "fun time" for Gandalf, though.
* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: Legolas explains to Laura exactly how the orcs tortured her, twice, even though Laura was obviously there at the time.
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: So much. For starters, Legolas doesn't have a castle. He and his father King Thranduil live in a ''fortified cave'', in the Mountains of Mirkwood.
* [[Dramatic Reading]]: Lots of them. It's really short, so can usually fit in a single [[YouTube]] video.
** The most popular one is by
* [[Emotionless Girl]]: Laura seems remarkably calm about being abducted and tortured by orcs.
* [[The Guards Must Be Crazy|The Gards Must be Crazy]]: They completely fail to stop laura from being kidnapped, and barely even react to it
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* [[No Ending]]: The story literally ''ends in mid-sentence''.
* [[No Punctuation Period]]: The first sentence is ''87 words long''.
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* [[Not Blood Siblings]]: Legolas kisses Laura and agrees to be her boyfriend even though he's supposed to be her adoptive father/brother/something.
* [[Out of Character]]: EVERYONE.
* [[Police Are Useless]]: The "gards" assigned to protect laura do absolutely nothing to prevent the Orcs kidnapping her.
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* [[Rape as Backstory]]: Legolas tells Laura that he was also raped and tortured by orcs when he was a youth.
* [[Rape as Drama]]: It attempted this and it failed.
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* [[Said Bookism]]: Completely averted.
* [[That Makes Me Feel Angry]]: "Legolas said'i am soo happy'".
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* [[Wham! Line]]:
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'''Laura:''' how did you know that
'''Legolas:''' when I was your age they did the same thing to me }}
** This fic being... this fic, it's [[
* [[Wife Husbandry]]
* [[You Fail Geography Forever]]: Mirkwood is ''not'' five minutes' walk away from Mordor, and Rivendell is on the ''opposite'' side of Mirkwood behind a mountain range. Then again, as far as we know, "Mondor" might be quite close to "Milkwood".
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