Meneltarmacil: Círdan seems to be around 11,400 years old (if he awoke at Cuiviénen). Galadriel 8,280 years roughly. Galadriel is older than the sun and the moon. She does show signs:
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but no sign of age was upon them, unless it were in the depths of their eyes; for these were keen as lances in the starlight, and yet profund, the wells of deep memory
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Helkahothion: He could possible have "seen it" through the palantíri at Emyn Beraid, as it looked only west over the sea. I believe he did leave Middle-earth and got to Valinor, but *when* is hard to say, maybe with the last people in the fellowship? Gimli and Legolas. An excellent page about Cirdan:
http://valarguild.org/varda/Tolkien/...ers/Cirdan.htm