Legolas's Age

[Legolas'sLover]

Does anyone know how old Legolas is? And, I don't mean when he set out on the quest. I mean just how old is the elf? smilies/evil.gif

[Elrian]

Here are the links to prior threads on the same subject. In the books it did not give an age for Legolas. Link (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=10&t=000548)and Link (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/cltimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=10&t=000194)

Hope that helps. smilies/smile.gif

[piosenniel]

Welcome to the Downs, Legolaslover!!! You're just in time for the birthday party!!!!! & I'm assuming you'll be bringing the luscious elf himself?! smilies/wink.gif

[Legolas]

If you don't mean "How old was he on the quest?" then what do you mean? You want his age at the present?

[Legolas'sLover]

There is a party? And I wasn't told!? Oh forget that! I guess me and my elf will just have to stay in that evening. smilies/wink.gif

[piosenniel]

Legolas'sLover - the Party is Now and, the Elf, himself, is there - pursued by a long line of young and panting maidens . . .

[Lomelinde]

Ok, here's a link to an article on Legolas, and there's a bunch of stuff about speculations on his age- very interesting:
Speaking of Legolas (http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/tolkien/36517)

[*Varda*]

In the lord of the rings movie guide, orlando bloom says Legolas is 2,931 years old. Hope that helps!

[The Barrow-Wight]

It would help if the movie guide were written by Tolkien, but it wasn't. So, the above-stated age is pure speculation.

[Kaszul]

I'm pretty shure I've read about Legolas during the fall of Gondolin, in the Book of Lost Tales II. In the story, it refers to Legolas Greenleaf leading a remnant of the Gondolodrim to safety. I'm not for shure if it means Legolas has survived the ages, or that he fell at one point and was reincarnated. But, if he never fell that would make him closer to the age of Galadriel than Elrond is.

[Legolas]

The Book of Lost Tales II finds Legolas being

Legolas 'or Green-leaf was a man of the Tree, who led the exiles over Tumladin in the dark, being night-sighted, and he liveth still in Tol Eressea named by the Eldar there Laiqalasse; but the book of Rumil saith further hereon.'

This was, of course, nixed later though, with Legolas being the son of Thranduil.

[Limlaith]

I always assumed that he knew the world before the hiding of Valinor. I imagine that he is somewhere around 3000 years old. But I am of no help.