I actually have the start of so many stories that I think would be good, I just can't make myself finish them. However, my best friend, Zel Ladrona, has written a trilogy and is currently working on her second. In a way, I'm her coauthor. She bounces ideas off of me, and I'm writing the story that goes in between the trilogies (there's about a sixty-year gap.)
Whoops, that's off topic.
I think that any fantasy novel with have some elements of Tolkien in it, and as someone, I cannot remember who, sorry, said, there are themes that occur in everything, from sci-fi to fantasy to historical fiction. There are just certain types of things that make good stories. And I don't think that using some elements from another author is plagiarism.
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