Heaven and the ocean

[Inziladun]

Originally Posted by mark12_30

I think Frodo' s dream is more about Frodo being too broken and lost to find his place in reality and society. But it is a society this side of the ocean that he is lost in; he does not yet know how to cross. It's as if darkness and despair still hold him captive.

Frodo's dream is all the more singular in that Hobbits generally did not have a favorable view of the Sea.

Few Hobbits had ever seen or sailed upon the Sea, and fewer still had ever returned to report it.....the Sea became a word of fear among them, and a token of death, and they turned their faces away from the hills in the west.

FOTR Prologue

For the Sea to have been a "token of death", some tradition of where the Elves actually went when they sailed from the Grey Havens apparently existed in the Hobbit psyche.

If that view was in Frodo's mind as well, perhaps his dream was indeed a forewarning that the end of the Ring would not leave him in peace; he would be forever "dead" to Middle-earth without it.