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fandomsecrets2014-06-30 07:07 pm
[ SECRET POST #2736 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2736 ⌋
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Re: spoiler for the last book/movie, though I feel like everyone knows this by now
He was writing the earliest stories of Middle Earth (early Silmarillion ideas) right back in WW1, while he was in the trenches. Part of what he was shaping was an epic story for the Elven languages he invented.
Then he wrote The Hobbit, based on tales he told his children, and put in incidental mentions of things from his larger world - namely the passing mention of Gondolin, the Elven city that Orcrist came from. The Hobbit only very loosely fits into the Middle Earth of Quenya and Sindarin history, but when asked to write a sequel, he ended up putting in more and more of that history, ending up making the whole Hobbit/LotR storyline fit into the larger history.
So TL;DR, he invented the world first, then fit The Hobbit into it.