Departure of the Galadhrim

[Eönwë]

Originally Posted by Inziladun

I think you already have the right idea. Maybe going from rude woodland folk indistinguishable from others in Wilderland, to a highly enriched people under the influence of probably the oldest and wisest of the Eldar left in ME, Galadriel, only made the Galadhrim feel the loss of Lórien as an 'enchanted' place that much more keenly. Watching their home wither after it had withstood the ravages of time all those years would seem to be rather depressing.

So where did they go?

West, to the Grey Havens, with the older and arguably wiser (sorry Inzil ) Cirdan (and maybe then crossed the Sea)?

We know that the Silvan Elves:

Originally Posted by UT, History of Galadriel and Celeborn

Were never wholly free of an unquiet and a yearning for the Sea which at times drove some of them to wander from their homes.

So maybe this was just taken a bit further once Galadriel and Celeborn left and the Silvan elves were left to fend for themselves.

Or could they have gone to Mirkwood?


Does it ever say where they went?

[Inziladun]

Originally Posted by Eönwë

So where did they go?

I don't recall anything to say definitively where the Lórien Elves went, but I think Mirkwood would have been the most likely destination. It was geographically near to Lórien, and its people would have spoken the Silvan language the Lórien Elves knew.
I can't see them going Over Sea, at least not at once. The sea-longing had to be awakened in the Silvan Elves before it would manifest. Before Legolas journeyed by the coast, he never had any desire to sail or be near the Sea.