Excellent thoughts,
Fordim! You're right - "transitional" is the wrong word for the events of this chapter.
The quote you mentioned is spoken by Pippin to Merry in "The Houses of Healing":
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We Tooks and Brandybucks, we can't live long on the heights.
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I'd say that applies not only to those families and not only to Hobbits!
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