hobbit afterlife?

[Ardamir the Blessed]

LR, 'The Houses of Healing':

Slowly the lights of the torches in front of him [Meriadoc] flickered and went out, and he was walking in a darkness; and he thought: ‘This is a tunnel leading to a tomb; there we shall stay forever.’

It seems that the Hobbits (or at least Meriadoc) did not believe in an afterlife (other than staying forever in a tomb).

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

That was just his mood that day. He had been reading Schopenhauer, you see.