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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
I am pretty sure Tolkien started "The Lord of the Rings" intending it for a similar target audience as the Hobbit, which helps explain the inclusion of Tom Bombadil and a few other incidents in the first part of the book.
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Tolkien said that he intended LOTR for an adult audience from its inception, whereas he wrote The Hobbit for his son while his son was a child/juvenile. (Why he included Tom Bombadil, I've no idea.)