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So while comfort is all very good and well in its own way, adventure is a lovely thing too.
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It kind of sounds like a “grass is always greener” effect, in a way.
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So it seems to me that Thorin's trek and the subsequent death of Smaug definitely concerned later history and was worth more than a note in the annals of the Third Age, in spite of what the text in the Prologue says.
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So, now we have the matter of the Long Winter and this as little inconsistencies in the Prologue. I’d speculate that he was trying to emphasize the importance of finding the Ring in comparison to everything else.
We need to start keeping a list.
