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Originally Posted by Alfirin
Tolkien always wanted to re-write the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings so that they would themselves be more like the Silmarillion
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That's not entirely true. He was actually much more focused on re-writing the Silmarillion material to match
The Lord of the Rings rather than the other way around. As far as I know, he had no plans to extensively revise
The Lord of the Rings - he did make a few minor changes for the second edition, and if he had lived longer, it's possible that further small changes would have been made; but during his lifetime he did not contemplate major changes (or at least, left no record of such contemplation).
He
did at one point intend to completely re-write
The Hobbit, and he wrote a few chapters of the revision, which were published in Rateliff's
The History of the Hobbit. But in the end he decided against such a major revision, and instead made only minor changes subsequently.