Are 🧝Legolas from 'The Fall of Gondolin' and 'the' Legolas the same?

[Elthir]

Concerning the possibility of meeting your namesake in the Halls of Waiting, it seems that, in any case, the Elvish fea (fea roughly translates as "spirit", plural fear) is solitary by nature, and turns only towards those with whom, maybe, it formed strong bonds of love in life.

At least according to Tolkien when he wrote Of The Laws And Customs Among The Eldar Pertaining To Marriage And Other Matters Related Thereto: Together With The Statute Of Finwe And Miriel And The Debate Of The Valar At Its Making [love that title].

"The Re-born report that in Mandos there are many elves, and among them many of the Alamanyar, but that there is in the Halls of Waiting little mingling or communing of kind with kind, or indeed of any one fea with another. For the houseless fea is solitary by nature, and turns only towards those with whom, maybe, it formed strong bonds of love in life."

Also noting . . .

" . . . a time of Waiting, in which, howsoever they had died, they were corrected, instructed, strengthened, or comforted, according to their needs to deserts. If they would consent to this. But the fea in its nakedness is obdurate, and remains long in the bondage of its memory and old purposes (especially if these were evil.)"

JRRT, Morgoth's Ring

 

[Elbereth Vala Varda]

 

[Áramandë Amaniel]

That looks more like Eol and Mairon...who would never meet up... 😅

 

[Elthir]

( . . . ) that the two Legolai (Legolasses? Legolases? Legolae?)

"In any case -d was later lost, and so we have argonath “the group of (two) noble stones” instead of *argonad." JRRT to Richard Jeffery, 427, 1972

Thus my newly invented form Legolath "the group of (two) Legolases" makes no sense at all.

 

[ElynAltariel]

I have read, that Thranduil was, when Bilbo was in mirkwood, around 5480 years old. So i guess, Legolas must be around 2500 or 3000 years old.

 

[Ent]

I have read, that Thranduil was, when Bilbo was in mirkwood, around 5480 years old.

Hi again.
Do you happen to recall where you read this tidbit? The "Legolath" our friend @Elthir invented and then labeled 'nonsense' are an interest I've not full pulled all the dates/details together on yet too. (There's a lot of 'lore' I'm still trying to get into memory.)

Thanks.

 

[Tar-Elenion]

The age of neither is stated by Tolkien. What can be gleaned from the texts is that Thranduil may have been from Beleriand (modelling his halls after Thingol's) If so he would be considerably older than 5480.
Legolas, OTOH, seems unfamiliar with areas he might be expected to have known, were he born in the Second Age, or before Thranduil retreated north from the Shadow growing in Mirkwood.

 

[Ent]

can be gleaned from the texts

OK thank you.

 

[Gloranthan]

The age of neither is stated by Tolkien. What can be gleaned from the texts is that Thranduil may have been from Beleriand (modelling his halls after Thingol's) If so he would be considerably older than 5480.
Legolas, OTOH, seems unfamiliar with areas he might be expected to have known, were he born in the Second Age, or before Thranduil retreated north from the Shadow growing in Mirkwood.

Legolas said he's never seen the sea. But he would have had to if he was the Legolegs of Gondolin. Seems to me that does it.