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I can be really courteous away from werewolf.
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Oh, me too.
Even if you don't watch US sitcoms you'd recognise the phenomenon, I think, as it is endemic these days.
Hugs 'n' Learning is a point in any given drama when someone learns that they've been making mistakes or behaving unreasonably, and becomes reconciled (usually emotionally) to their situation/fellow cast members. Often accompanied by hamfisted clumsy "the moral of the story is..."
The "arc of personal development" belongs to the same breed of cheesy nonsense.
Off the top of my head, various non-canonical Hugs 'n' Learning moments in LotR:
Theoden, really grumpy sulking in the bowels of Helms Deep, then persuaded by Aragorn to "draw swords together".
The elves deciding to help men after all by coming to Helms Deep.
Aragorn not wanting to be King but gradually getting talked into it, finally having Elrond pop up with Anduril in the middle of Rohan.
Elrond in his turn seeing the error of his ways vis a vis Arwen.
I could go on.