Okay, for the umpteenth time, just because a book can be read to children DOESN'T MEAN IT'S A CHILDREN'S BOOK. That's like saying all of Dickens were Children's books
The Hobbit can certainly be considered far more a children's book than The Lord of the Rings, but it isn't exclusively for children, which is what is implied. It was more of an introductory book for the LotR world which he was already working on but not nearly finished with (which is why there were a number of edits made between the first and second printings). But to say "then write a children's book in it" is a vast over simplification of not only the work but the weight of the world created there, to the point of being vaguely insulting to all.
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