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Originally Posted by The Mouth of Sauron
The River Limlight, the northern border of Rohan, was only about 100 miles from Lorien.
There surely must have been SOME occasional contact between Elves from Lorien and men from the Wold.
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I believe not (beyond the random night sightings of a few Haldirs, or a few crazed Rohirrim wandering too far, both as mentioned above). The Galadhrim were very, very isolative people (see also UT, of Celeborn and Galadriel for some details about the folk) and they would not stick their nose out of the woods except for some scouting parties, who would however remain hidden and walking out of the sight of humans. There was also certainly not as much need for them to visit Rohan, they would stop there a few times but their main concern would be checking the other directions from their home as possible lands of threat from the Orcs, Wargs and everything.
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Originally Posted by The Mouth of Sauron
In addition, men (Beornings and others) still lived on the banks of the Anduin north of Lorien, down to maybe the Gladden Fields. Here again, they might have had some contact with Lorien and would most certainly have had contact with Elves from Mirkwood. I say that because there was certainly interaction between the Mirkwood Elves, the Dwarves of the Lonely Mountain and the Men of Esgaroth. In turn, these people (particularly Dwarves) travelled into Eriador via the High Pass that was guarded by the Beornings.
All these comings and goings must have led to some residual contacts at least with Gondor, not least by way of the Anduin and via Rohan.
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What you are saying about the contact among the groups in the North is true, but I see no reason for contact between the peoples living north of Gladden Fields and the peoples living south of Lórien. Why? Let me say just two words: Dol Guldur. Also, the places around Tol Brandir have not been safe in the latter Third Age. As Boromir (or was it Aragorn?) mentioned, the Orcs were becoming more daring and could have been often waiting at the left bank of Anduin itself (as it happened to Fellowship). And before that, earlier in the TA, before the fall of the Dragon, the Wilderness was far more wild and the realm of the Beornings did not seem to reach as far or be as strong (that happened only after the renewal of Erebor, which brought the need of new trade routes and the Beornings profited from guarding the routes). Also, the reach of Dol Guldur was considerably longer in the earlier times.