References/tributes to Tolkien in your own writing

[Thinlómien]

I was reading my creative writing final work one day and I was amused how I had almost subconsciously slipped Tolkien references there... A king says to his helper (translated rather bluntly, sorry ): "I owe you a lot. If there's anything that you want and is in my power to give to you, I will give it to you. I only insist on keeping my sword." and in the end of the tale, the death of a young woman and the fact that her body was never found is described rather Nienor-ishly... I was merely amused and I think they can be there as tributes to the writer whose texts I've read so many times I've lost count.

So, my question is, have you done something similar when writing stories or poems? Were these references conscious or subconscious ones?

(If you're not too shy, actual quotes would be lovely. )

PS. If a thread like this exists despite all my searches, please point that out. There's also a separate thread where you can share your experiences of making Tolkien references in non-fictional (school) works...

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

I think I am doing this all the time. In fact, my writing style is very often showing references to other authors. It is partially intentional and partially not. I am sure I am writing akin to somebody even without realising.

I am not sure if I could quote an example, basically it's really just everywhere. But perhaps just one which I can quote rightaway - it's a rather specific example, and it was intentional that time; one short story of mine about a necromancer and his apprentices; at one point the apprentices were talking and one of them said to the others: "You'd better go and study now, if you don't want to end like conjurers of cheap tricks."

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

Eh, well, I wrote some stuff last year that I thought was my own style mixed with a sizeable helping of Saga-style. Cailín read it and immediately said: "Silmarillion." I think mostly because it was a quite impersonal summary of a creation myth.

So I suppose I need to try harder.

[Elmo]

I use a lot of Tolkienesqe words like fair, dwelt, keen, deem, unconsciously in my writing. Makes it sound very archaic though sometimes.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Originally Posted by Elmo

I use a lot of Tolkienesqe words like fair, dwelt, keen, deem, unconsciously in my writing. Makes it sound very archaic though sometimes.

I'm in the same boat as you, Elmo. I've started to write with Tolkienesque sounding words. Well, that is when I write...

[Ibrîniðilpathânezel]

I know that when I made my first forays into fiction writing in the latter years of elementary school, whatever I wrote was seriously influenced by whatever author I happened to be currently reading and enjoying. I had a Tolkien phase, and a McCaffrey phase, and a Hawthorne phase, and a T.H. White phase, and lord only knows how many others. By the time I reached my latter years of high school, I started to become aware of this, so that when I started work on the more ambitious works I wanted to submit for professional publication, I had to consciously guard against inadvertent imitation. Meant a lot of editing and rewriting. I'm sure my original fiction has traces of all the authors who have most profoundly influenced me, but I haven't been accused of sounding like anyone but myself for decades -- unless I did it deliberately. Perhaps it's a kind of mellowing that comes with age.