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Originally Posted by William Cloud Hicklin
Ah, but John Rateliff's History of the Hobbit has rather changed things- from the very first draft of 'An Unexpected Party:'
"[Gandalf (> Thorin, confusingly):] "We must give a thought to the Necromancer."
"Don't be absurd" said the wizard. "That is a job quite beyond the powers of all the dwarves, if they could be all gathered together again from the four corners of the world. And anyway his castle stands no more and he is flown to another darker place - Beren and Tinuviel broke his power, but that is quite another story.""
So there you have it: "Sauron the terrible" was already "peeping over the edge" from the outset!
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So... quite contrary to what I'd heard,
The Hobbit was
always meant to be set in the same world as
The Silmarillion?