There are many of these in the books, one "minor" one that some people may not notice is the first paragraph of Chapter VIII: Fog on the Barrow Downs
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That night they heard no noises. 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
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This quote is about Frodo having a dream in the house of Tom Bombadil, this is his first thought of longing to go to the havens, because the dream is about the havens. It kind of forshadows that he is going to go there, even though it does not say exactly.
I too never thought of the Merry scar part, forshadowing that he was not going to die. But I just never had a fear that Merry or Pippin would ever die an untimely death in the books, Tolkien would just never do that. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]