In the Lord of the Rings, did Frodo die at the end? When he went on that boat...?

Answer 1

Frodo did not die at the end of RotK, nor does such a passage infer a symbological death. He sailed away with Gandalf, Bilbo, Galadriel, Cirdan, Elrond, and many Elves of Lorien and Rivendell, sailing over Sea on the Straight Path to Valinor.
Valinor is the Realm of the Valar, the archangel-like beings who oversee the world. It is also known as the Undying Lands, as mortals who set foot there never die. Elves who sail to Valinor are, by the War of the Ring, of mostly Silvan descent, having never been to Valinor, and a few Noldor who lived in Valinor during the First Age, most notably Galadriel and Cirdan. The race of the Elves awakened in the far East of Middle-Earth in the earliest days, and were divided into two groups, one group who refused to journey to Valinor and were called the Avari, and the second group who took the westward road and were further divided into three groups: the Vanyar, the Noldor, and the Teleri. Only the Vanyar and the Noldor made it en masse to Valinor, while the Teleri fragmented further, some staying in Middle Earth. The Elves stayed in Valinor for uncounted years, until the theft of the Silmarils by Morgoth, when Feanor led the whole host of the Noldor back to Middle Earth to wage war on Morgoth and reclaim the Silmarils. As the centuries of warfare rolled on most of the Noldor fell in the many great Battles with Morgoth, until his final defeat by the Valar at the end of the First Age. Many of the Elves then chose to leave Middle Earth, but Elven Tirion and Valinor was closed to them, and they established the haven of Avallone on the island of Tol Eressea.
However, Tolkien never said that Frodo or Bilbo went to Valinor itself. During the Second Age Valinor was present physically on Arda, the World, and could be reached by any sailor puissant enough to sail thru the Enchanted Seas that protected Valinor. The Valar had laid a Ban on mortals sailing to Valinor, because it was not within their power to withhold the Gift of Men, called Death, wherein the spirits of Men leave the World and go to dwell with Eru, the One, or God.
This Ban is the reason for the destruction of Numenor, when the last Numenorean Emperor-King sailed to Valinor with an Armada (at Sauron's suggestion) to seize immortality. They were entombed alive on the shores of Valinor, millions of them, and they wait there still, immortal but unable to escape or even move, buried alive.
After the sinking of Numenor the Third Age began, and Valinor was physically removed from the world, with only one path (a dimensional portal far out at Sea) remaining that would lead there. The Elves can instinctively find this way, and every so often a mortal sailor will accidentally enter in upon it and see the Pelori, the Mountains of Valinor, rising up before him. One such mariner was Eriol, from the Book of Lost Tales, but he, being mortal, was not permitted to beach on Valinor.
Mortal visitors to the Blessed Realm are allowed to live on Tol Eressea, an Island anchored in the Bay east of Elven Tirion. The island is a part of Middle-Earth, not the Blessed Realm, drawn from Middle-Earth by Osse during the First Age to ferry the Elves to Valinor. As such it is a mortal island and does not confer immortality upon its residents.
If the Ban is still in effect during the Third Age then Frodo, Bilbo, and eventually Samwise, all live on Tol Eressea, free of guilt, despair, pain, and the terror of bad memories. They live in blessedness, and sweetness, living lives of renewed vigor and spirit, possibly far longer than normal, but they do die, as do all mortals. Their spirits then pass on to the the Halls of Mandos in the far West of Valinor, and from there out beyond the Circles of the World to dwell with Eru, Illuvatar, or God.

Answer 2

No-The Elves were leaving Middle Earth and took Bilbo and Frodo,the Ring keepers,with them...Keeping the rings gave the hobbits extended life...In the book,it had been many years since Bilbo left before Frodo set out on his journey,maybe not apparent in the Movie..Frodo hadn't aged during his time with the ring,and would have many years ahead of Him.

Answer 3

Yup...the trip to the Gray Havens represents death/afterlife for the Elves. Remember that they took Frodo, Bilbo, and Gandalf along.
Sam went back to Hobbiton.

Answer 4

He went to the Undying Lands with the last of the elves

Answer 5

no frodo went on the boat with him and i think gandolf did to.

Answer 6

No he didn't die. He left middle earth because Gandaulf the White beckoned him to.

Answer 7

He didn't die. He went away to where the elves were going.

Answer 8

no. i think only bilbo went on the boat. frodo just saw him off.

Answer 9

I don't think it was dying in the sense how we think of dead, but sailing away on the boat was supposed to mean that those people are passing on.

Answer 10

no... he went with the elves on a journey to Varda... the Home of the "gods" of Middle Earth... in a sence he has "passed on" but death was not a part of it...