The Grey Havens

[blantyr]

Originally Posted by TheLostPilgrim

A question: What exactly are the Grey Havens?

I'd add that the elven Kingdom of Lindon was one of the last major nations of elves, of which the Grey Havens was just a port city. At the end of the 2nd Age, Gil Galad's armies were comparable in size to Elindil's, the armies of Elves and Men in that conflict were roughly equal.

Still, towards the middle of the Third Age, the Witch King's wars and the following plague messed up the north west. By the end of the Third Age what had been well developed well populated civilized areas were but a shadow of what they once were. Most of the elves had departed West.