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In The Hobbit (1977) and The Return of the King (1980) movies by Rankin/Bass, Thranduil and Legolas look quite different from each other despite being father and son. Why?

Legolas took after his mother

Recessive genes

Legolas is adopted

Legolas is actually short and green, but uses a glamour to appear otherwise

Thranduil is actually tall and blonde, but uses a glamour to appear otherwise

That Thranduil was actually a decoy, in case the dwarves tried assassination

Legolas is still in the larval stage of his species

All that heavy drinking eventually affected Thranduil’s looks

Legolas’ dad is a different Thranduil; two elves can have the same name, geez

Okay, so, do you know the canonical backstory for Smurfette…?

Something something Silmarillion

I don’t engage in Watsonian theorizing when Doylist explanations are obvious

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The actual answer is, of course, multiple of these