I may well be shot down from you hard core people who know something more about this, but i have always like to think that Legolas is the same Elf of the House of the Leaf that lead the Survivors of Gondolin. The reason I think of this is that yourfriendandmine Tolkein wrote so much about Glorfindel, about how is he the same person as the one in the LoTRs. During this time he must have re-read the Fall of Gondolin, and how could he not have noticed Legolas there. Yet he never mentioned any problems (i dont think). I think he thought "Glorfinel died, but Legolas lived, hmmm well there is no incostistancy with Legolas". Also
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and even the name, House of the Leaf sounds very, very like Mr Greenleaf. There is no incosistancy, and this would make Legolas at least 6337 years (the total time between the end of the First and Third ages, am i right? No wait, arg, add to that the time between the Akallabéth and the Last Alliance, which cant be more than a hundred years, if that) Also his father is a survivor of Doriath was he not, so it would be a little odd to wait an entire age for a child?
So my Theory is that Legolas came to Gondolin seeking sheltor after the fall of Doriath. There is the slight problem that would Legolas like to be in a big city in the mountains away from the trees? Then the times were hard and beggars cant be choosers, plus i think he would have loved the company of the Noldor.
Also question: Did Legolas start off with a predudice towards Dwarves? Cause he isn't very nice to Gimili until they become friends, and the predudice could well have come from Meaglin, being a very dwarf-like elf because of his upbringing(DWARROW-ELVES!). I am not saying this is necicarily exactly what Tolkein intended when he wrote the book, but he didn't intend Glorfindel's history either and that is still valid and v. v. cool.
Anyway do i get flamed now? Or could i be right?