tbf to Tolkien he was cognizant that he was writing a deliberate Arcadian idyll in the Shire, one born of fragile and ultimately ephemeral outside and domestic circumstances, the prior social peace of Hobbit-country shattered by the industrial Scouring of the Shire as Saruman deliberately used Hobbit pawns and the legal structures of well capitalism, basically, to overturn long-standing customs and social norms maintaining Hobbit society and with his collaborators and Ruffians going full Captain Planet villain ruining mills simply to chew up the shared village greens of Hobbiton and smog up the sky. It is only later in a newly restructured Shire that a new Hobbit society is created, proclaiming itself the restoration of the old, with Samwise as Mayor and his descendants the new squire-y owners of Bag End.
It's subtle but there's like specifically almost Isekai energy of Merry and Pippin becoming Knights of Rohan and Guards of the Tower and treated as like princely ambassadors and heroic warlords of their people, like some cash-poor merely middle-upper-class young gentlemen of the Victorian British countryside suddenly swept up in some Quixotic properly properly medieval social structures with the Rohirrim rocking the mead-halls of Beowulf and the Captains and Stewards of Gondor as just the Podestas, Gastalds, and Capetans of the cities of Lombardic and Byzantine Italy.
