[NewCenturions]

Those Mirkwood elves were too materialistic (wanting THEIR share of the treasure, indeed!) Legolas, on the other hand, was higher class (and better looking!)

[HairOfTheDog]

and better looking!

Indeed!

[HairOfTheDog]

Ahh... here is a quote that perhaps describes the difference in the mood...

As soon as he [Frodo] set foot upon the far bank of Silverlode a strange feeling had come upon him, and it deepened as he walked on into the Naith: it seemed to him that he had stepped over a bridge of time into a corner of the Elder Days, and was -now walking in a world that was no more. In Rivendell there was memory of ancient things; in Lórien the ancient things still lived on in the waking world. Evil had been seen and heard there, sorrow had been known; the Elves feared and distrusted the world outside: wolves were howling on the wood's borders: but on the land of Lórien no shadow lay.

[JenB]

Those Mirkwood elves were too materialistic (wanting THEIR share of the treasure, indeed!) Legolas, on the other hand, was higher class (and better looking!)

But - Legolas was a Mirkwood Elf! His father, Thranduil, is King of Mirkwood, who locked the Dwarves up all those years ago.