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Though what the population situation was like in The Undying Lands I shudder to think - I have visions of Galadriel returning there to find it crammed with skyscrapers, the people forced to live in tiny Tokyo style flats and her moaning and saying "it all used to be trees and fields around here".
Maybe they had found a way of shrinking themselves to make more room? In which case I hope Frodo did not contract the Green Death.*
Chuckle! The mind boggles... However, from what we see of the earlier Elves in the Silmarillion, overcrowding doesn't seem to be a problem, because they're pretty murderous and tend to get killed in battle, quite a lot. Even if they do go to the halls of Mandos, they'd probably wait a while to be recycled, by which time some more Elves would have been killed fighting each other... I would have thought, mind you, that a race that was all but immortal wouldn't have too many children in the first place, but that's not an issue either.