Re: The writing process
The best advice I can give you is to just start writing the story wherever it seems like it should start. Don't worry about the grammar and all of that, just write. Tell the story. Get to know your characters.
You may find that you're starting in the wrong place, and what you thought would or should happen won't. The characters need to decide for themselves what they'll be doing. If you don't find this happening, well, you aren't succeeding in bringing them to life. That's something that a lot of writers forget, and why many books suck.
If you try to fit the story to an outline, the character motivations won't be genuine and the book will suck. Any story, not just Tolkien's, grows in the telling.
~D
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