Galadriel herself states that the Fellowship sees Lorien only in her winter; spring will not come again (I don't have the exact quote to hand.) Other references to the seasons are Aragorn's marriage to Evenstar on Midsummer's Day, the period of the most sunshine in the year, and also the Fellowship setting out "just in time for winter". The seasons are part of the strands of light and shadow he captures us all in.
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But of bliss and glad life there is little to be said, before it ends; as works fair and wonderful, while still they endure for eyes to see, are their own record, and only when they are in peril or broken for ever do they pass into song.
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