He ship went out into the High Sea and passed on into the West, until at last on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. This is referenced again at the end of Return of the King, when Frodo departs on the Elven-ship:
But either in his dreams or out of them, he could not tell which, Frodo heard a sweet singing running in his mind a song 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.įellowship of the Ring Book I Chapter 8: 'Fog on the Barrow-Downs'
This dialogue from the film borrows from a dream Frodo has in Bombadil's house:
