feel to that....the troll under the bridge...I do love how different these
Hobbit Elves are from both the Sil and the LOTR elves...these kinds of
questions really point that up and show us how Tolkien "wrote" his way into
this story, only understanding as he went on that it was a corner of the Arda
he had already created for Beren, Luthien, Turin,
etc.
"It is perhaps not possible in a long tale to please everybody at all points, or to displease everybody at the same points; for I find from the letters I have received that the passages or chapters that are to some a blemish are all by others specially approved."
--J.R.R. Tolkien
Forward to the 1965 Ballantine edition of "The Lord of the Rings"