Reviews by NancyBrooke

All These Wore Wings · Fri Oct 03, 2003 3:35 pm

This story is so wonderful. With only a few words you create a Boromir whose strength, ambition, and fond love for his brother are so clear; but more charming is your Faramir who says so little and so much simultaneously. I found your weaving of the Tuor story very moving as it portends the brothers' lives.

I will always marvel at the seeming ease of your writing. It is like a Wyeth watercolor - so simple and so evocative.

Fatherhood · Tue Sep 30, 2003 4:09 pm

This is an excellent vignette, well-written and thoughtful. Waiting for more, now.

Coming Home · Tue Sep 30, 2003 11:55 am

So poignant, so wise ... I always admire stories where more is implied than written and this is a good example. One really feels for Merry here, in many ways the canniest of the four hobbits, and here appropriately disillusioned and jaded, but recoverable. well done.

A Ranger's Duty · Wed Sep 24, 2003 1:30 pm

Lovely is the word. I wonder if you'll continue? How can 'Strider' get poor Pippin home without causing a fuss? etc.

My only suggestion is that you may have worked a bit too hard on the language. "Unveiling bandages," for example was a bit over the top. Such a simple, straightforward and successful subject might be better served with more simple phrases.

Snorg: Letters from Mordor · Mon Sep 22, 2003 3:09 pm

Woot! Fantastic!

Dropping Eaves · Thu Sep 18, 2003 11:49 am

Delightful! a little long on the beginning exposition, maybe, but delightful.

The Faithful · Thu Sep 18, 2003 11:44 am

Good character studies; I thought your tracing of Mablung's feelings and their repurcussions particularly insightful and compassionate. Good job!

Singing In The face of Death · Thu Sep 04, 2003 3:29 pm

A proper and provocative tribute to an almost forgotten character. For once, however, I found the poet's rhythm stumbled a little in my mind's voice. But the lines "as though the steel had sheltered in his heart" and "the steel had lost its shine" I found particularly resonant.

Ascension · Thu Sep 04, 2003 3:23 pm

A subtle and careful insight into a difficult man; could have been written in his voice. there are so many resonant images here - ashes, the fruitless withered tree, the enemy at the gate, an ending coming with this beginning. And all done expressively in a confining form. Another great achievement.

Gifts of Life · Wed Aug 20, 2003 2:21 pm

Very enjoyable - a lovely idea well executed. Very sensitive characterization and expansion - to see Gimli and Merry in a time peace and imagine how their cultures would manifest in gift-giving; excellent! A thoughtful and charming story (only a little awkwardly wordy at the start).

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