In melee, Legolas has every advantage sans maybe skill (which I could see being argued either way tbh). Aren't Elves naturally stronger, faster, more durable, and more agile than men? And by a fair margin at that?
They are not stronger or at least, Legolas is described as weaker, physically, than Boromir and Aragorn :
« Well,' said Boromir, 'when heads are at a loss bodies must serve, as we say in my country. The strongest of us must seek a way. See! Though all is now snow-clad, our path, as we came up, turned about that shoulder of rock down yonder. It was there that the snow first began to burden us. If we could reach that point, maybe it would prove easier beyond. It is no more than a furlong off, I guess.'
'Then let us force a path thither, you and I!’ said Aragorn. »
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« Legolas watched them for a while with a smile upon his lips, and then he turned to the others. »
« The strongest must seek a way, say you? But I say: let a ploughman plough, but choose an otter for swimming, and for running light over grass and leaf or over snow-an Elf. »
Later :
« [Boromir] lifted up the hobbit. 'Cling to my back! I shall need my arms' he said and strode forward. Aragorn with Merry came behind. Pippin marvelled at his strength, seeing the passage that he had already forced with no other tool than his great limbs. Even now, burdened as he was, he was widening the track for those who followed, thrusting the snow aside as he went. »
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