Legolas's Age

[Tar Elenion]

Originally posted by Halbarad:
<STRONG>I stand corrected. I still don't think it was the best idea though. However, just because he wasn't mentioned as going to the battle doesn't mean he wasn't alive and behind for whatever reason.</STRONG>

But also in no way supports the conclusion that Legolas was or may have been born in Doriath and was older than Elrond, or that he was or may have been born in the Second Age.
There is no evidence to support any conclusion that he may have been born in the First or Second Ages, but some circumstantial evidence that he was born in the Third Age, and likely after the Shadow first came to Dol Guldur. Legolas had not been to Lorien or Fangorn, and was not familiar with Eregion, yet his father and grandfather passed through those areas. One of the reasons given Oropher moving to northern Greenwood was that he resented the intrusions of Galadriel and Celeborn into the area of Lorien and its environs. Legolas has also never met Galadriel and Celeborn. Does it seem reasonable that he a prince of royal line and kinsman of Celeborn would not have met G&C in Doriath if born there? or later in Lindon or Eregion? or in the environs of Lorien?