well, actually Elrond doesn't say anything like "next year". the words of Elrond are some kind of invitation and reminder that Frodo is welcome to travel to Valinor with them (sure he knew that Arwen had given 'her place' to Frodo) and the words just told that the leaving will be after summer when everybody is ready to leave. they had maybe agreed about the leaving date later but they wanted to leave in the fall(was Cirdan bilding a ship for them, or something...)
i just can't see any contradiction here.
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