Personally i think that it wasn't the same Legolas Greenleaf. I figured the same reason as Bruce, and because Tolkien has mentioned Glorfindel as the only elf who was send back to Arda after his death.
Lothiriel - The LotR is 77 years later than the Hobbit. Legolas Greenleaf is oldest of the fellowship (after Gandalf), and indeed lived a long time before the hobbit. He said he remembered the ride of the rohirrim from the north and that was about 500 years earlier, so that makes Legolas old in our counting, but still young for an elf.
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'You?' cried Frodo.
'Yes, I, Gandalf the Grey,' said the wizard solemnly. 'There are many powers in the world, for good or for evil. Some are greater than I am. Against some I have not yet been measured. But my time is coming.'
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