Oh, how did I miss this when you posted it? That's absolutely hilarious - poor Legolas, indeed, but what a perfect solution! "My" Legolas also hated the parties and balls, as you know, and I can absolutely see this, although:

“But surely they realise that somewhere there is an elleth whose fëa will sing with mine? Not some aristocratic Gondorian maiden...It does not stop me thinking, quite often, that I would rather face yrch.”

- I consider myself suitably rebuked! (Though in my defence Rowanna was hardly your archetypal Gondorian aristocrat, even if technically the description might apply...)