Haarspalter said:

Easterhay said:

Wake up and smell the proverbial; none of this is new or revolutionary - even Tolkien went back and revised The Hobbit to fit in with The Lord Of The Rings.

Tolkien tried to revise the Hobbit to fit in with LOTR. But he stopped because he was worried that the Hobbit would loose it's original intention: being a fairy tale for children. And so he scrapped his plans of a Revised Hobbit.

He revised the Riddles in the Dark chapter so that the nature of the ring was more like that of Lord of the Rings. This revision is even mentioned in Fellowship, where Gandalf tells Frodo that Bilbo initially lied about his encounter with Gollum (Riddles in the Dark in the first edition) and that what was in the revised edition was what really happened.