[NazgulNumberTen]

|_|) <-pours self a pint
ok. i the early days of my fantasy writing, it was so much like lotr i wanted to cry. Tolkien created such a vast world, and such an epic tale, that it is next to impossible to find any fantasy story that dose not have things in common with Lotr. i have noticed these thinngs, and have complied them into a list of "uniting factors"
they include
-some sort of ancient evil, or an awakening of the sort
-some big bad dark lord
-a fellowship that sets out to destroy it
-a dark land, full of shadow and evil
-a gandalf like character, some wizard type who is wise and guides the group
some other stuff too
currently, i am revising and changing my work to give it a feeling all its own. and with all tolkien has done, it's very very hard.