Back once more to the original question, I always interpreted the conversation like this:
Gandalf gives the messages and then lapses into a musing about the words spoken to Aragorn for a moment. Gimli is sad, Legolas doesn't have much pity, then Gandalf figures out the meaning of Galadreil's words and gives Gimli his message.
As for Legolas and Gimli in Valinor, I always thought itwas pretty clear cut that the elf would live for obvious reasons and that Gimli would eventually die like other mortals. Unless he was granted a special get out of death free card like others in ME seem to have done...
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There long the golden leaves have grown, upon the branching years, while here beyond the sundering seas, now fall the Elven-tears...
but if of ships I now would sing, what ship would come to me, what ship would bear me ever back, across so wide a sea?
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