Reviews by NancyBrooke

March Frost · Wed Feb 02, 2005 5:44 pm

Ah! Excellent ... how clever and compassionate of you to focus on Merry's guilt rather than his fear: it would be more lasting. I also thought Estella's fear and the palpable dread a wonderful and incisive metaphor on marraige - how we take our partner's burdens for our own, good and ill. Well, Well done!!

Nighttime Comforts · Wed Feb 02, 2005 10:05 am

Very nice! I particularly enjoyed your unsentimental Eowyn; you found a good and, to my mind, realistic solution of how to depict the Shieldmaiden after she has given up the shield. And I enjoyed your quite emotive Faramir: opposites attract! Fluff with well-developed characters is the best kind.

Later · Tue Feb 01, 2005 2:23 pm

What is it about weddings and big celebrations that can turn two discerning adults into randy teenagers? I only know you've captured it perfectly here, and mixed it tenderly with blooming love.

Knight's Service · Tue Feb 01, 2005 2:11 pm

Ah, Tanaqui, I'm glad to see this story here, you a brand new member, and to take this opportunity to reacquaint myself with your work.

This story is perfect within its scope. Your characters are both in canon and your own; your language is faultless and tells a charming story well paced. I particularly liked watching with Eowyn as bits of Faramir's clothes were removed. Clever of you not to give us every detail as our attention was naturally drawn elsewhere in the story and then returned. Very realistic.

Welcome to OSA.

Regretful · Tue Feb 01, 2005 11:57 am

Oh! Poor Lothiriel, so self-pitying she is punishing the others around her. An interesting view slanted from the fanon of a happy couple. You bring Lothiriel's feelings clearly to the fore, even while clearly depicting the world she has come to live in.

Strongly written; the opening paragraph itself would stand as a drabble. Loved this line "She wondered what ghost or demon she might encounter around the next corner and openly welcomed it."

Assorted drabbles · Tue Feb 01, 2005 11:09 am

An interesting moment. Nice to link Boromir and Eomer and I think you portray E's thoughts and concerns very evocatively in so few words.

Stranger · Tue Feb 01, 2005 10:58 am

Congratulations, Thuriniel! Your first drabble, and what a lovely one.

It's from writers like you I gain greater respect for Legolas. You have thougtfully imagined a difficult moment, simple but profound. Well done.

Of Firwen and Eldanur · Mon Jan 31, 2005 5:13 pm

Promising! I'll look forward to further chapters.

Songs upon the Wind: Vignettes and the like · Wed Jan 26, 2005 5:36 pm

Very enjoyable. The second chapter has an ease of expression that belies and at the same time clearly carries the depth of feeling you put into it; if the first section were similarly lightened up a bit I think the simple but enormous feelings of Eowyn's I think you mean to communicate might rise to the surface more clearly.

Gríma Goldentongue · Wed Jan 26, 2005 4:13 pm

I hardly know what to say! To a story so rich in lyricism and baubled with description where words themselves become the road to, the tool of, and the reliquary of power - amazing!

You have not only revived Tolkien's characters here you have perfectly created the roads by which the travelled into those pages. I am in awe of your vision of Grima - you lay the seeds of all the strengths and weaknesses of character by which he is more commonly known, and with compassion and equinimity.

Lackwit - your name fits you ill.

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