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Originally Posted by Morthoron
I think of it as rather like the story of Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving or Karl Katz by the Brothers Grimm (or even Ossian the warrior bard's last dialogue with St. Patrick). When mortals come in contact with Faerie, there is a time-space alteration. Time does not flow the same in Lorien as in the outside world (and this was noticed by Frodo and the others). What seems like a day could be a week, could be a year, could be a century. Those who enter without leave and managed to return to the outside world (if any) are irrevocably altered, aged beyond recognition.
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Tolkien actually considered true time differences here, but ultimately abandoned his ideas. Actual time flow was the same in Lórien as the outside world, even though it did not seem so. The effects of time were arrested however.