Why Galadriel left Valinor?

[Landroval]

Maybe Melkor was not lying, but saying as it is? "Something is rotten in the State of Denmark" (C) Shakespeare), if you have to ask a permission to leave a gilded cage.

Who said there is such an obligation??

Originally Posted by Of the silmarils and the unrest of the noldor

The Valar had brought the Eldar to their land freely, to dwell or to depart; and though they might judge departure to be folly, they might not restrain them from it.