The first dream sounds like an elf experience of getting called to climb the
white tower and look west in the palantir there. The beginning of the
dream of a high window in a dark forest does sound like a Gandalf connection. I
believe at this point, Gandalf may already be captured and imprisoned at
Orthanc. Or this part of the dream could be a growing sense of prescient
foreboding that Frodo is feeling. In your re-wording of the dream, a key phrase
was left out: "Then he knew that it was not leaves, but the sound of the Sea
far-off; a sound he had never heard in waking life, though it had often
troubled his dreams." (italics mine). Very curious... a hobbit who dreams
of the sound of the sea and has been dreaming of that sound for a very long
time. Pre or post ring? could be either. At this point, he has had the ring for
17 years. This dream gives me the impression that Frodo's spirit is "elvish" in
tone. Possible UUT that Frodo is a reincarnated elf?
The second dream seems literally prescient to me. I think that had something to
do with the effect of Tom Bombadil on Frodo.
In "Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit" there is a quick reference to Frodo waking up
to Sam's cooked coneys from "another gentle unrecoverable dream of peace." I'm
pretty sure there are other dreams, but they are not indexed. I don't know
where they are.
Very interesting topic. I will definitely be on the look out for his dreams
while I (re) read LotR (just started again). In general, IIRC, Frodo seems to
have different levels of dreams...sometimes they seem prescient, sometimes just
jumbled reflections of what his life feels like and sometimes they bring
awareness and comfort from a different
plane.
"...men's hearts are not often as bad as their acts, and very seldom as bad as their words." Tolkien, letter #250.