Is this all there is?

[wilwarin538]

I really liked this:

...wights or any other creatures that we are happy to kill in their thousands.They are usually black, hairy, sweaty or in some other way unacceptable by middle class Caucasian standards.

Thats us alright!

[Formendacil]

Very hilarious... More than few good sigs in there...

[Fallenstar]

LOL..funny indeed...that reminds me of the formula for expository essays.....but really, when you look at books a lot of them seemed to resumble each other. (that doesn't limit to fantasy genre only...a lot of other books too...) i.e. Romeo and Juliet is like the ultimate cliche of Romance.....

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

That's true. The romance formula consists of 2, maybe 3 steps.

Fantasy has lots.

[Alcarillo]

Note: All fantasy worlds are roughly square. i.e. the shape of the double page of a paperback.

That's my favorite part.

Anyways, there's no resemblance to Tolkien, but it is rather funny. And I've seen some stories grade-school students have written that seem to follow those guidelines.

[Encaitare]

Anyways, there's no resemblance to Tolkien, but it is rather funny.

I would disagree... it's certainly not all there is to Tolkien, as was the original question posed -- and Tolkien followed no such list, to be sure! -- but there are certain resemblances. The part which struck me as being the most similar (and this part is obviously referring to how both Pippin and Bilbo are knocked unconscious and therefore miss much of the battle going on around them):

Despite the need to keep the book long, some bits are just too hard to write. A thousand mile journey by foot is long, but easy to write. Battles on the other hand are hard because there’s a lot going on and you probably require some knowledge of military strategy. So if you’re writing a battle scene and it’s just getting too hard, simply have the hero suffer a wound and lapse into unconsciousness: e.g.

"… then suddenly his head exploded and a mist enveloped him and he felt himself falling down into an ethereal tangible blackness. Badcolds’s sword, still swinging through the air, seemed caught, imprisoned in time. The sound of the battle was suddenly a long way away but just as he closed his eyes and the black cloud engulfed him he thought he heard someone crying from the grassy knoll, "The Toasters are coming. The Toasters are coming."

Voile. Next thing our hero wakes on a white alabaster slab in the Healing Room where the Pure Maiden Warrior (see "Characters" below) tells him that the battle is over and, Guess what? They won! Result: you've saved 50 pages of intricate military description.

[Alcarillo]

True, you've got me there. However, I mostly meant the overall tone of the site, a haha feel, to Tolkien's style of writing, which was more developed and sensible than the site. You're right, there are parallels between the two:

Motley Bunch of Companions=Fellowship
Wise but Useless Guide=Gandalf (anything but useless)
Tough Old Warriors=Dunedain (?)
Pure Maiden Warrior=Eowyn

And in The Silmarillion:

The gate of that harbour was an arch of living rock sea-carved...

Compare that to:

Castles are always "hewn from the living rock" whatever that means.

Yes, it is mostly a parody of LotR, which has become a sort of role-model for young authors to admire. When they do try to write a Tolkienesque fantasy it usually comes out as the site describes.