Nenya or the Elessar?

[Inziladun]

Originally Posted by Galin

Here's another example that doesn't exactly help the Nenya case with respect to the mallorns, brought up (elsewhere, by Maiarian Man). Treebeard says...

'They are falling rather behind in there, I guess,' he said. 'Neither this country, nor anything else outside the Golden Wood, is what it was when Celeborn was young.'

That seems to obliquely speak of the ultimate futility of Galadriel's works in Lórien.
The Elves there would almost appear to be stuck in a fairer version of the torment of the Nazgûl: they had arrested change and death, at the price of being trapped in a rut where they could not change or adapt for the better, either.
The power of preservation the Three provided was a temporary shield against decay, and could provide a simulacrum of the Undying Lands. In the end though, the effort to arrest change in a world in which change was the natural state of things only led to sadness, as the closer they got to Valinor, the more aware they became of the differences between what they'd done with the Three, and the 'real thing' in the West.