Or perhaps there's a more simple explanation (I hope I'm not being *too* simple and I hope that someone hasn't already said it).
People who write fantasy are attracted to Tolkien's work because it is fantasy. Perhaps some people wrote fantasy before they read Tolkien, not the other way around.
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'What news from the South, O sighing wind, do you bring to me at eve?
Where now is Boromir the Fair? He tarries and I grieve.'
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