Legolas his raw metals. However Legolas and Gimli began to become friends when Gimli greeted the Elven queen Galadriel respectfully. When the fellowship left Lothlórien, Galadriel and Celeborn gave the members gifts; Legolas received a new longbow. Legolas used the bow to bring down a "fell beast" in the dark with one shot. After Boromir was killed and Meriadoc Brandybuck and Peregrin Took were captured by orcs in "The Two Towers", Legolas, Aragorn, and Gimli set forth across Rohan in pursuit of the two captured hobbits. In the forest of Fangorn Legolas and his companions met Gandalf, resurrected as "Gandalf the
Gamgee Tissue and "Brandywine" (an obvious English pun on the Elvish "Baranduin", 'justified' as translation of a similarly alcoholic pun in Westron). In this context we may suspect that the Professor is speaking tongue-in-cheek; the "Gamgee" entry is phrased such that it can be read as a poker-faced, academic way of pointing out that the joke is there, whether or not he intended it. Gamgee Tissue Gamgee Tissue is a surgical dressing invented by Dr. Joseph Sampson Gamgee in Birmingham, England, in 1880. Gamgee Tissue has a thick layer of absorbent cotton wool between two layers of absorbent gauze. It represents the