For years now, Sarah J. Maas has been writing characters that serve as ultimate book boyfriends. However, when it comes to people she crushes on, we have to go back to the Lord of the Rings movies. That’s right, the A Court of Thorns and Roses author had a major crush on Orlando Bloom’s Legolas. However, I really shouldn’t have written that in the past tense, because when she described what would happen if she met the actor, it very much proved she’s still head over heels in love with him.
This all came up as Maas was talking about how she started writing Throne of Glass during her “emo Lord of the Rings phase” on the Call Her Daddy podcast. That led Alex Cooper to mention Legolas, and the author noted that she still has a cardboard cutout of Orlando Bloom’s character. I’ll let her tell this part of the story:
