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Originally Posted by davem
TH was never written to be part of the Legendarium & Tolkien had to rewrite it to make it fit even as weakly as it does. If LotR had not been written - ie if The Sil had been accepted for publication as Tolkien wished after the success of TH, then no-one would have thought of it as having anything to do with The Sil.
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The Sil was written and re-written but as yet unfinished, and LOTR did not yet exist, yet there was Elrond in TH-- talking about Gondolin and the Goblin Wars. TH snatched that little bit of Sil-background before LotR was even contemplated or asked for.
If you are saying that TH is not an integral part of the Sil, I agree with you. It ain't. But it arose out of the same compost (so to speak) and is part of the same forest.