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Silm. is older story though...
I believe he began writing Silm long before the hobbit. It was his life's work, but he kept having to write other stuff before he could fully concentrate on the Silm. The hobbit was a story he told his kids(or grandkids im not sure) using the world he was creating in the Silm. Later he used it to get some money while writing his massive creation myth. When the hobbit had success he was asked to write a sequel. Therefore he wrote LOTR and never got a chance to finish the Silm which he had spent so much time on. This is what I have heard but never have read alot about him. I wonder if he could have ever finished the Silm even if he had lived longer because he was constantly changing and molding it. He wanted it to be so perfect that maybe it would have never been finished so it took a different person, his son, to compile and tie it up after his death. Just a bit of Spec on this friday
also I believe it could not have been a Silmaril because the ending of the War of Wrath states that one is in the Air with Earendil and the other two are in the Earth and Water ,respectively, and they will stay there till the end the final battle when the world is broken.
TWR
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