Elves are a long lived race so Legolas knows the Ranger Strider and of his true identity. He and most of his people have a distrust of Dwarves, which will lead to some interesting happenings between him and Gimli.
Elves have the preternatural ability to move more lightly across the ground then any other people of Middle-Earth; Legolas is no exception. He is able to run swiftly and effortlessly across the roughest terrain, barely leaving footptints even on new fallen snow. Being a forest elf he is a master of woodcraft, and is able to scan his environment in order to read even the most minute traces and tracks left by the birds and beasts of the world.
He also sees with greater clarity and over longer distances than the rest of the Fellowship, and is a superb and deadly shot with an Elvish longbow, which he pledges in Frodo Baggins' service.
Legolas also carries two Elf-knives that are long white knives with filigreed blades- deadly weapons, for the elves make the keenest of all blades in Middle-Earth.
