2005 Author Reviews for
LadyAranel

I said it last year, and I'll say it again, ... Lady Aranel is my favorite author that never finishes things. - except for maybe BarrowWight, but he's only ever started one fanfiction and I can poke him with a sharp stick when I see him several times a year, Lady Aranel is too far away for such persuasion, so I guess I'll just have to do the best I can here. So, here's to you, Lady Aranel, except for my relations, about the only fan-ficcer whose works in progress I will read. - Keep up the good work, a chapter at a time ... I am holding out hope, but not holding my breath, that you will eventually finish some of these chapter works. You have a special talent of emotion and introspection that puts you in touch with the inner workings of your readers in a way that few authors are able to do. Lady Aranel?s works, all her works from her drabbles to her longer (although unfinished ) fanfictions are carefully, painstakingly thought out and crafted word by word. Every nuance is thought through before it?s written, and rethought and rewritten time and again until it?s perfect. Her settings are rich and detailed, every background filled in ?just enough? to settle the reader into the flavor of the scene without overloading them with detail, and ?just enough? to give the characters what they need to move the readers along with the story. Not just the sights, but the scent and sounds, the texture of bare Elven skin are woven in delicious, provocative detail that keeps the reader coming back for more.

I said it last year, and I'll say it again, ... Lady Aranel is my favorite author that never finishes things. - except for maybe BarrowWight, but he's only ever started one fanfiction and I can poke him with a sharp stick when I see him several times a year, Lady Aranel is too far away for such persuasion, so I guess I'll just have to do the best I can here. So, here's to you, Lady Aranel, except for my relations, about the only fan-ficcer whose works in progress I will read. - Keep up the good work, a chapter at a time ... I am holding out hope, but not holding my breath, that you will eventually finish some of these chapter works. You have a special talent of emotion and introspection that puts you in touch with the inner workings of your readers in a way that few authors are able to do. Lady Aranel?s works, all her works from her drabbles to her longer (although unfinished ) fanfictions are carefully, painstakingly thought out and crafted word by word. Every nuance is thought through before it?s written, and rethought and rewritten time and again until it?s perfect. Her settings are rich and detailed, every background filled in ?just enough? to settle the reader into the flavor of the scene without overloading them with detail, and ?just enough? to give the characters what they need to move the readers along with the story. Not just the sights, but the scent and sounds, the texture of bare Elven skin are woven in delicious, provocative detail that keeps the reader coming back for more.

Lady Aranel does an amazing job with perspective work in the story "Out of Stone." Gloin was the perfect viewpoint for this tale because the friendship between Legolas and Gimli would come as such a shock to him. The other members of the Fellowship had seen it develop and anyone else (with the possible exception of Thranduil) wouldn't understand just how deep the estrangement between elves and dwarves went. But Gloin does know and this is all very new to him, which gives the friendship itself a very fresh perspective that Lady Aranel capitalizes on well.

I said it last year, and I'll say it again, ... Lady Aranel is my favorite author that never finishes things. - except for maybe BarrowWight, but he's only ever started one fanfiction and I can poke him with a sharp stick when I see him several times a year, Lady Aranel is too far away for such persuasion, so I guess I'll just have to do the best I can here. So, here's to you, Lady Aranel, except for my relations, about the only fan-ficcer whose works in progress I will read. - Keep up the good work, a chapter at a time ... I am holding out hope, but not holding my breath, that you will eventually finish some of these chapter works. You have a special talent of emotion and introspection that puts you in touch with the inner workings of your readers in a way that few authors are able to do. Lady Aranel?s works, all her works from her drabbles to her longer (although unfinished ) fanfictions are carefully, painstakingly thought out and crafted word by word. Every nuance is thought through before it?s written, and rethought and rewritten time and again until it?s perfect. Her settings are rich and detailed, every background filled in ?just enough? to settle the reader into the flavor of the scene without overloading them with detail, and ?just enough? to give the characters what they need to move the readers along with the story. Not just the sights, but the scent and sounds, the texture of bare Elven skin are woven in delicious, provocative detail that keeps the reader coming back for more.

I said it last year, and I'll say it again, ... Lady Aranel is my favorite author that never finishes things. - except for maybe BarrowWight, but he's only ever started one fanfiction and I can poke him with a sharp stick when I see him several times a year, Lady Aranel is too far away for such persuasion, so I guess I'll just have to do the best I can here. So, here's to you, Lady Aranel, except for my relations, about the only fan-ficcer whose works in progress I will read. - Keep up the good work, a chapter at a time ... I am holding out hope, but not holding my breath, that you will eventually finish some of these chapter works. You have a special talent of emotion and introspection that puts you in touch with the inner workings of your readers in a way that few authors are able to do. Lady Aranel?s works, all her works from her drabbles to her longer (although unfinished ) fanfictions are carefully, painstakingly thought out and crafted word by word. Every nuance is thought through before it?s written, and rethought and rewritten time and again until it?s perfect. Her settings are rich and detailed, every background filled in ?just enough? to settle the reader into the flavor of the scene without overloading them with detail, and ?just enough? to give the characters what they need to move the readers along with the story. Not just the sights, but the scent and sounds, the texture of bare Elven skin are woven in delicious, provocative detail that keeps the reader coming back for more.