What does it mean to Write in the Spirit of Tolkien?

[Nar]

but I think Nar would be the first to tell you that my story is greatly at variance to what Tolkien was up to, while nevertheless being true (at least in part) to its spirit

LMP, Yer flaming right I would! Have a flaming rum punch!
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Rumil, Well said:

Tolkien seems to be devoid of the need of modern fantasy writers to explain everything

Another thing I notice is that whatever Tolkien introduced, he took his time with variations on the words ... Lorien, Lothlorien, Laurelindorean, prose poems describing the place or the story or the entity, songs, always a breath in the text, time and space to allow the reader to absorb the new element. I particularly missed this in the movie... everytime the movie has Gandalf shout: 'We must take the @#$#@%@#%!' I winced-- it was sounding so like a standard fantasy story -- a new word every paragraph but no responsiveness to the word or the reader.