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Mar 19, 2018 at 22:56	comment	added	Pryftan		@Jasper Sure but the Istari were to help with defeating Sauron and I don't recall them being there during the Second Age; the First Age Sauron was Melkor's lieutenant but not himself a full on threat. So although the mythology was there (or at least the earlier versions of it) the Silmarillion was the First Age. As an aside technically The Lord of the Rings isn't a trilogy and The Tolkien Estate makes this clear and Tolkien suggested numerous times that he doesn't see it as a trilogy (and it caused problems for some readers because of the seeming disconnect).
Jul 3, 2014 at 21:40	comment	added	Jasper		Actually, while The Hobbit was written without plans for the LotR trilogy, it was a side-project while Tolkien was working on the full larger history of his world, much of which was later bundled and printed as The Silmarillion. As such, there was no planning ahead, but the history was (largely) there. The Hobbit was written purely from the simpler hobbit point of view, though.
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