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5) The main piece of (still circumstantial) evidence is that when JRRT re-read the Fall he saw Glorfindel's name and thought "damn I have used the same name", and he never commented on Legolas being there, even though Legolas has a much larger part in the LoTRs than Glorfindel.
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I'm sorry, because I like your way of thinking, and in general I am with you in this discussion but this isnt't an argument at all. When you read the remarks about Galdor that are attached to the Essay about Glorfindel it becomes clear that JRR Tolkien hadn't read FoG at that time (beacuse he did not know if Galdor survived FoG). Christopher Tolkien said that he thinks his father were not even able to locate the manuscript. So that JRR Tolkien not mentioned Legolas in these circumstances did only mean he didn't remembered him to be in the FoG.
Respectfully
Findegil