No Long Journey Save One

[Malva Headstrong]

Well, I´m not, but I´ll try anyway [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img].

Also, do you suppose Elrond could be using the phrase specifically for its double meaning, so it could be interpreted to mean both things which turn out to be true?

I suppose, that would be right. No mortal died in Eldamar (not by nature anyhow) so Elrond couldn´t know if Bilbo died or not. But he know that he would go into the West so he used the common phrase "long journey". And maybe he didn´t want to scare Frodo.