[Nogrod]

Thanks davem for getting us back to the track... I was a bit unsure whether my point was reasonable in the first place but what is posted is posted.

But to follow your lead. Why do we speculate this much of a character Tolkien himself clearly abandoned in his later years? It's easy to me to see that he was not happy with Beorn (and his capabilities) and thence intentionally forgot him - left him with no mention or not building up anything with the shape-changer-beornings... Had he lived two hundred years he might have come back to Beorn again and tried to solve the problem of his generation or origins which he had brought to life in the Hobbit but it seems he never did it.

Someone more savvy might correct me on this one but that's my impression.