I'm sure that some Hobbits were killed by the Ruffians. If they weren't killed outright, they could have been severely injured, and later died of their wounds.
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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