Lindon

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Lindon is, to my knowledge, never directly described by JRRT. How do you picture this country at the end of the third age? Or during the rule of Gil-Galad in the second age?

We know that Lindon was the last remaining part of Beleriand after the turmoils that ended the elder days. Here, Cirdan was lord over one of the last high elven settlements in Middle Earth after the fall of Gil-Galad. At the Grey Havens he kept ships with the capacity to carry world-weary elves on the straigth path across the seas to Aman. In Lindon, along green shores under the mist-clad Blue Mountains, noldor elves still tarried towards the end of the third age, and here Galadriel and Celeborn dwelled for many long years.

So how did the elven settlements look like you reckon? Were there cities or just scattered households. I personally doubt the Noldor would settle for simple huts.

How about the Gray Havens? Was it a walled fortress capable of withstanding a siege or a more modest dwellingplace?

And how did their society function? Did they engage in trade? We know there were dwarves in the Blue Mountains.

And where does the Shire fit in? The Gray Havens could be reached in just a few days from it and Bilbo were said to visit the elves from time to time. Is it possible that some Hobbits did have contacts with Lindon?

What about Gondor towards the end of the third age? Did they have contacts with Lindon?