Are You Writing Serious Fantasy?

I have one page written down of a story called "The War for Hebloht". It looks to be very promising. It was hard to try and not imitate Tolkien, I really like his morals and way of writing. But I found that when I'm making up what I'm writing, it's a lot more fun than a fan fic. If I was writing a fan fic based on LotR, if I slipped up, I'd get lots of angry protests from Tolkien fans. But with writing you make up, you can't slup up!:-)