well, I don't think Bournemouth has anything to do with the story. It was published in 1945, and written some years before, when LoTR was not yet even in shape, an QS was rejected. JRRT felt he was getting old, and not much of his heart's work was likely to appear in print at all. only "leaves" of his "tree" seemd good to him, and the whole appeared (and not completed at that) only after his death. Yet, despite all this, in Leaf by Niggle his great humility is also shown:
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things might have been different, but they could not have been better
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one of the "life shaping motto" of JRRT's