I think it's fairly impossible to directly copy from a book without changing it a little. For example, I'm in the middle of writing a fantasy book (the first of a series), and I will admit that I have gotten a few ideas from Tolkien. For example, my main character's home was destroyed by the forces of darkness, the main character grows up in the wilderness with a band of Ranger-types, and the villain is remarkably like a Ringwraith, hooded and cloaked in black, although the person is actually a person, not a wraith. The languages that I'm also using in the story are of my own devising, but the general sound resembles some of Tolkien's languages and some words/languages from Mercedes Lackey's books.
I think it's all right to use elements from other stories. After all, that's what Tolkien did. I don't think he would mind if we did the same from his works.
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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