2005 Author Reviews for
Elena Tiriel

Elena Tiriel has a unique voice, greatly under-appreciated and greatly underused. Her work is fun and quirky, - sometimes subtle, sometimes not, but always insightful. Her drama is tender, her humor pointed and her horror conveys delicious shivers up the spine. I would love to see more of her work, an author with her skill always leaves readers, especially this reader, hungry for more.

Elena Tiriel can be so funny! In her drabbles there usually is a sense of the humorous, but it's often interlaced with the serious. And never a canon fact out of place, of course. But what less would I expect from one who jokes that a drabble should get seven words for the title, 100 for the body -- and 3,000 for the footnotes?

Elena Tiriel has a unique voice, greatly under-appreciated and greatly underused. Her work is fun and quirky, - sometimes subtle, sometimes not, but always insightful. Her drama is tender, her humor pointed and her horror conveys delicious shivers up the spine. I would love to see more of her work, an author with her skill always leaves readers, especially this reader, hungry for more.

Elena Tiriel can be so funny! In her drabbles there usually is a sense of the humorous, but it's often interlaced with the serious. And never a canon fact out of place, of course. But what less would I expect from one who jokes that a drabble should get seven words for the title, 100 for the body -- and 3,000 for the footnotes?

Elena Tiriel has a unique voice, greatly under-appreciated and greatly underused. Her work is fun and quirky, - sometimes subtle, sometimes not, but always insightful. Her drama is tender, her humor pointed and her horror conveys delicious shivers up the spine. I would love to see more of her work, an author with her skill always leaves readers, especially this reader, hungry for more.

Elena Tiriel can be so funny! In her drabbles there usually is a sense of the humorous, but it's often interlaced with the serious. And never a canon fact out of place, of course. But what less would I expect from one who jokes that a drabble should get seven words for the title, 100 for the body -- and 3,000 for the footnotes?

Elena Tiriel has a unique voice, greatly under-appreciated and greatly underused. Her work is fun and quirky, - sometimes subtle, sometimes not, but always insightful. Her drama is tender, her humor pointed and her horror conveys delicious shivers up the spine. I would love to see more of her work, an author with her skill always leaves readers, especially this reader, hungry for more.

Elena Tiriel does a great job of framing book quotes with introspective drabbles. They add a fullness to the story and offer insight into things that Tolkien only lightly brushed, sometimes providing backstory and sometimes providing moments of realization. It's a great addition to canon, and these drabbles are kept light enough that they fit neatly into whatever is happening within the books. But they're also serious enough to carry the weight of the tale. Very deft touch by the author.

Elena Tiriel can be so funny! In her drabbles there usually is a sense of the humorous, but it's often interlaced with the serious. And never a canon fact out of place, of course. But what less would I expect from one who jokes that a drabble should get seven words for the title, 100 for the body -- and 3,000 for the footnotes?

Elena Tiriel has a unique voice, greatly under-appreciated and greatly underused. Her work is fun and quirky, - sometimes subtle, sometimes not, but always insightful. Her drama is tender, her humor pointed and her horror conveys delicious shivers up the spine. I would love to see more of her work, an author with her skill always leaves readers, especially this reader, hungry for more.

Elena Tiriel can be so funny! In her drabbles there usually is a sense of the humorous, but it's often interlaced with the serious. And never a canon fact out of place, of course. But what less would I expect from one who jokes that a drabble should get seven words for the title, 100 for the body -- and 3,000 for the footnotes?

Elena Tiriel has a unique voice, greatly under-appreciated and greatly underused. Her work is fun and quirky, - sometimes subtle, sometimes not, but always insightful. Her drama is tender, her humor pointed and her horror conveys delicious shivers up the spine. I would love to see more of her work, an author with her skill always leaves readers, especially this reader, hungry for more.

Elena Tiriel can be so funny! In her drabbles there usually is a sense of the humorous, but it's often interlaced with the serious. And never a canon fact out of place, of course. But what less would I expect from one who jokes that a drabble should get seven words for the title, 100 for the body -- and 3,000 for the footnotes?