All books have a sozy somewhere...

"In a hole in the ground there lived"... a badger!

Bag End is Badger's home.

Bilbo, the respectable Hobbit, is Badger, the respectable animal.

One lives in the country, one lives in the Wood, but both are grumpy, cozy, and not interested in the adventures of others...until others force them out of their hole.
We know where Tolkien found some of his inspiration...

All books have a sosy somewhere...

When children rule the world (...or an island)

Right: Naughty childhood tries hard to enjoy naughtiness without turning nasty. Finds security on an island, but in the process loses more and more its capacity for human feelings. The "real world" has been outed from the island.

Left: Children try to act sensibly and turn nasty. Locked on a maddening island from which they can't get out. The "real world" invades the island and turns it sour.

Pervasive threat rules these two. But, where Golding shows you scary, maddening, childhood “dreams”, Barrie easily indulges in them. You’re left with a sense that this threat felt in Peter Pan may not have been felt by its author, and that, above all, is the scariest aspect of the book.