[tifo_gcs]

I think you're wrong about Galadriel and her meeting with the ring. She knows that the time of men approaches, so she has a choice, to use the ring and become the female Sauron, or to say no to the ring and be able to go back to the West. I think she realized that she had screwed up in the rebellion against the valar, but that she wanted to go back. Ultimately all elves want to go back across the sea (except Arwen and Luthien).
I still think that they went out of spite towards the Valar more than anything else. But to close that discussion it will require combing the Silmarillion with a comb, and I haven't read it for a while [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]