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I'm deeply saddened that there is no ebook version currently available. I have an ebook from 2011 and I re-read it every couple of years.
As to the "Tolkein copy" question, I see it as an independent work, but there are group who see it as somewhat of an imitation. For example, one reviewer on Amazon wrote:
You could almost make yourself believe "Red Moon and Black Mountain" is a quasi-sequel of The Chronicles of Narnia or The Lord of the Rings , as the story is very much written in their spirit. At times author Joy Chant seems to be working with the template of "The Lord of the Rings" given the contents of her story: there are horse-people here, and a beautiful magical maiden who gives up her immortality for love, and a Dark Lord who threatens the freedom of the world. There's a white city, and giant eagles, and a race which has a deep kinship with the stars, and fantasy names like "Vandarei" and "Kendrith" that wouldn't look out of place in a Tolkien novel.
All of the points of similarity are accurate but the details and overall feel of either or the "cognates" are very different from Lord of the Rings.
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