Neat! And can he eat lembas and so on, as well? That's actually a fairly useful adaptation, then, if he can live on basically anything. Can he eat the non-dark-creature poisonous kind, too?

Though, wow, that would disturb Thranduil so badly, if his little baby is smiling at him with crunchy spider legs stuck in his fangs. On the other hand, Gimli's probably 'Legolas, there's a redback nesting in my tool rack, want a snack?'