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Tolkien's Legendarium, which later became the Silmarillion, was definitely conceived of long before he wrote The Hobbit. When he started writing the latter, it wasn't intended to belong to Middle-earth, but Middle-earth gradually made its way into parts of the story. Only when he wrote what was supposed to be a sequel to The Hobbit, LotR, did he have to make an effort to integrate the two stories.
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'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth.. .'
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