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Which davem am I talking to? The one who thinks Authorial Intention is all, or the one who apparently stands ready to jettison a whole book and (apparently) slash whole sections of LotR even over the claims of the author, all on the basis of the opinion of some Tolkien scholar? The latter -- at least for the present -- it seems.
Of course there are the annoying facts of the Shire, the Ring, Gollum, old fairy-tale Bilbo himself, Elrond, Gandalf, Gloin, Balin, the Beornings, the Sackville-Bagginses (Heaven forbid! Too silly by far!), etc. and so on ad infinitum with which we must contend.
When Bilbo intruded into the Legendarium, he -- and Hobbits -- troubled the counsels of the Wise and the Great in more ways than one. His appearance echoed backwards and forwards through the Legendarium. You prefer your faerie dark and Elvish and brooding and epic, and that's fine. But that's not all there is in Middle-earth, nor all that Tolkien saw there.
You can kick the stone troll in the seat of his pants if you like, but you'll only end up breaking your own toe after all.
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