I might want to say that the entire affair is about the Hobbit being a children's book and written before LotR. Though this viewpoint has been up in the discussion, I'd like to emphasise it a little. If we start making up 'reasonable' explanations, we'll just have a headache, because if there are any by Tolkien they most probably are belately invented. 
Or then there is the chance that I'm just an ignorant little brat who hasn't read the Letters.. 
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"But some stories, small, simple ones about setting out on adventures or people doing wonders, tales of miracles and monsters, have outlasted all the people who told them, and some of them have outlasted the lands in which they were created."
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