Are You Writing Serious Fantasy? II

[QuickSlash]

How did you decide that you wanted to write fantasy? What kind do you write?

How has Tolkien influenced your writing? If so, how?

Well, I don't know if I count, as I write poetry instead of full-length stories. At the same time, if I can say this without being pretentious, it's usually good, and I'd like to go somewhere with the ones that turn to songs.

So, assuming I count, I write, as stated, poetry/songs. The ones that are fantasy are usually in reverence to nature, though I wrote a couple ones about battles and war a while back.

Tolkein isn't much of an influence to my writing. Usually, most of my work comes from being outside for a long while, just listening to the world. Occasionally, I'll outline something similar to elves, and I mean the elves from LotR. They were beautiful. The ones on battle, though, were based directly on Tolkein and his Nazgul.