But there are, I fear, no hobbits in The Silmarillion (or history of the Three Jewels), little fun or earthiness but mostly grief and disaster. Those critics who scoffed at The Lord [of the Rings] because ‘all the good boys came home safe and everyone was happy ever after’ (quite untrue) ought to be satisfied.
J.R.R. Tolkien, from a letter (n°227) to Mrs E.C. Ossen Drijver (1961), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (via
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Silmarillion: there are no good boys and no one comes home
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just moving along like everyone else 