Though Thranduil's elk in The Hobbit films was not white, he may have been a nod to this established connection between deer and Mirkwood in Tolkien's legendarium, as elks are part of the deer family.

There’s a reason I kept accidentally typing Thranduil as Tranduil in the first draft of this post. And that reason is because Lee Pace is fabulous. There are some other pictures below, we guess.

Like many of Weta's Hobbit/Lord of the Rings pieces, The Woodland King is designed at 1:6 scale. But given the enormous size of Thranduil's throne, the piece still clocks in at a whopping 41.33 ...

Producer from Daedalic talks about the upcoming Middle-earth game and shared images of Gandalf, Thranduil, and the Mouth of Sauron. By Eddie Makuch on July 7, 2021 at 12:08PM PDT.

Every time Lee Pace begins a dramatic speech as his stoic Thranduil, his steed starts moving dramatically off his mark. "It would never fail," the good-natured Pace laments. Watch for yourself.