Outside Middle-Earth answer:
The Hobbit was written a good twenty years earlier, and while key plot points did not change, things such as the nature of the elves and of the Necromancer did.
Inside Middle-Earth answer:
They were taking the p*ss out of the Dwarves.
(not pass)
Ai! Ai! A censorbot is come!
[ January 24, 2003: Message edited by: doug*platypus ]
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