Galadriel

[Linarryl]

About how old is Galadriel? Is she older than than Celeborn or is she not that old?

[Claenoic]

Umm... wrong board to post this on. My friend, Earniel, will be glad to move it though, and then you'd get more answers

[Earniel]

Indeed

Moving this to the Middle earth forum.

[Lefty Scaevola]

At least 7500 years old by the time of LotR, maybe several centuries Older. Acting less mature and being unwed at the time of the revolt of the Noldor, she is not likely to have been more than a a few centuries old at that time.

[Ñólendil]

Less mature than whom, Lefty? All but a tithe Rebelled against the Valar and left Tirion, as you know.

I don't think there could have been a significant age difference between Galadriel and Celeborn, at least by Elvish standards. At least, they lived during the same era and were of the same generation from the those three Lindarin brothers: Olwe, Elwe and Elmo. (Galadriel being Olwe's granddaughter and Celeborn being Elmo's grandson).

[Lefty Scaevola]

Originally posted by Ñólendil
Less mature than whom, Lefty? All but a tithe Rebelled against the Valar and left Tirion, as you know.

She, like several of the "young" princes, went not a a follower of lord, not as one convinced by Feanaro's great rhetoric, nor out of a sense of obligation to family and people like NoloFinwe, but to acquire adventures and realms.
As Tolkien was rewriting here, he add more of the "obligation to the people" motive to her, but that would in a a very back and forth mixed up state with no clear conclusion about her.
The desire to acquire dominium over peoples and lands appeared to die out in the more fully mature elves, with some notable exceptions like Feanor, at least by the time they got to be a millenia or so. after that point they were my interest in being steward like rulers and preseving, rather than creating polities and getting new subjects.

[Sister Golden Hair]

I think all of Fingolfin and Finarfin's children were very young at the time of the Exile and that would have meant high spirited. For example: Tolkien says in Unfinished Tales that Finrod:

had the high courage of the Noldor and in his youth, their eagerness and unrest.

Now on Galadriel's maturity. Unfinished Tales says:

when at last, all that she had desired in her youth came to her hand, the Ring of Power and the dominion of Middle-earth of which she had dreamed, that her wisdom was full grown and she rejected it, and passing the last test departed from Middle-earth for ever.