What about Frodo's dreams as a clear foreshadowing of his departure to the Blessed lands, especially the one when he is at Tom Bombadil's house at the beginning of the quest?
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That night they heard no noises. But either in his dreams or out of them, he could not tell which, Frodo heard a sweet singing running in his mind that seemed to come like a pale light behind a grey rain -curtain, and growing stronger to turn the veil all to glass and silver, until at last it was rolled back, and a far green country opened before him under a swift sunrise.
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And another foreshadowing of the same that occurred in Rivendell after the Ring had been destroyed, when Sam was speaking with Frodo:
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'Well, Mr. Frodo, we've been far and seen a deal, and yet I don't think we've found a better place than this [i.e. Rivendell]. There's something of everything here....'
'Yes, something of everything, Sam, except the Sea,' Frodo had answered; and he repeated it now to himself; 'Except the Sea.'
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Also, the phial of Galadriel can be seen as a foreshadowing of what Frodo himself will become by the end of the book. You can see this possibility when Gandalf speculates earlier in Rivendell what might become of Frodo:
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He is not half through yet, and to what end he will come not even Elrond can foretell. Not to evil, I think. He may become like a glass filled with a clear light for eyes to see that can.
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Other references to light occur throughout the book in relation to Frodo which reinforce this foreshadowing, specifically the descriptions of him having the light of an Elf-friend in his eyes.
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