2005 Author Reviews for
Lindelea

Lindelea is a caring and dedicated author, whose love of Hobbits and her love of her work shines through in her fascinating details and carefully woven plots and twisting subplots. Working within Tolkien?s Middle-earth, she?s crafted an elaborate world within a world with her extended hobbit families ? both their pasts and their futures in the Shire she?s built, so carefully crafted alongside Tolkien?s. Keep up the good work Lindelea ? I?ll try to be a better fan in the future and be more consistent with my reading and reviews.

Lindelea is a caring and dedicated author, whose love of Hobbits and her love of her work shines through in her fascinating details and carefully woven plots and twisting subplots. Working within Tolkien?s Middle-earth, she?s crafted an elaborate world within a world with her extended hobbit families ? both their pasts and their futures in the Shire she?s built, so carefully crafted alongside Tolkien?s. Keep up the good work Lindelea ? I?ll try to be a better fan in the future and be more consistent with my reading and reviews.

Lindelea is probably my favorite writer of hobbits. Her Merry and Pippin, in particular, never cross over into the dreaded ickle sweetness that I've too often seen. They are close, they are the best of friends, but they are not children and their friendship, in all its courage and mischief, is never allowed to slide over into caricature or emotional hyperbole. This makes her gap-fillers with these two a pleasure to read from beginning to end. There's a sharpness and a particular quasi-euphemistic lightness to her dialogue that fits the characters and helps open them and the canonical scenes to either side of her fics to us. Likewise with her stories of the hobbits and the Shire after the war, she grounds them in their native but transformed soil and in so doing, leads us to see everything differently without asking us to sacrifice our hand-hold on the characters.

Lindelea is a caring and dedicated author, whose love of Hobbits and her love of her work shines through in her fascinating details and carefully woven plots and twisting subplots. Working within Tolkien?s Middle-earth, she?s crafted an elaborate world within a world with her extended hobbit families ? both their pasts and their futures in the Shire she?s built, so carefully crafted alongside Tolkien?s. Keep up the good work Lindelea ? I?ll try to be a better fan in the future and be more consistent with my reading and reviews.

Lindelea is probably my favorite writer of hobbits. Her Merry and Pippin, in particular, never cross over into the dreaded ickle sweetness that I've too often seen. They are close, they are the best of friends, but they are not children and their friendship, in all its courage and mischief, is never allowed to slide over into caricature or emotional hyperbole. This makes her gap-fillers with these two a pleasure to read from beginning to end. There's a sharpness and a particular quasi-euphemistic lightness to her dialogue that fits the characters and helps open them and the canonical scenes to either side of her fics to us. Likewise with her stories of the hobbits and the Shire after the war, she grounds them in their native but transformed soil and in so doing, leads us to see everything differently without asking us to sacrifice our hand-hold on the characters.

Lindelea is a caring and dedicated author, whose love of Hobbits and her love of her work shines through in her fascinating details and carefully woven plots and twisting subplots. Working within Tolkien?s Middle-earth, she?s crafted an elaborate world within a world with her extended hobbit families ? both their pasts and their futures in the Shire she?s built, so carefully crafted alongside Tolkien?s. Keep up the good work Lindelea ? I?ll try to be a better fan in the future and be more consistent with my reading and reviews.

Lindelea is a caring and dedicated author, whose love of Hobbits and her love of her work shines through in her fascinating details and carefully woven plots and twisting subplots. Working within Tolkien?s Middle-earth, she?s crafted an elaborate world within a world with her extended hobbit families ? both their pasts and their futures in the Shire she?s built, so carefully crafted alongside Tolkien?s. Keep up the good work Lindelea ? I?ll try to be a better fan in the future and be more consistent with my reading and reviews.

Lindelea is a caring and dedicated author, whose love of Hobbits and her love of her work shines through in her fascinating details and carefully woven plots and twisting subplots. Working within Tolkien?s Middle-earth, she?s crafted an elaborate world within a world with her extended hobbit families ? both their pasts and their futures in the Shire she?s built, so carefully crafted alongside Tolkien?s. Keep up the good work Lindelea ? I?ll try to be a better fan in the future and be more consistent with my reading and reviews.

It takes a brave author to try something like this. In "The Council of Elrond," Lindelea manages to poke fun at Tolkien (complaints about the length of the council come to mind) and she also manages to poke fun at Carroll (the style itself and the antics of some of the characters are good examples). But even in the middle of all this, Lindelea also pays tribute to both authors, and does a very nice balancing act in the process. Great adherence to form, content, and style. It definitely takes a talented and brave poetess to pull off a poem like this.

Lindelea is a caring and dedicated author, whose love of Hobbits and her love of her work shines through in her fascinating details and carefully woven plots and twisting subplots. Working within Tolkien?s Middle-earth, she?s crafted an elaborate world within a world with her extended hobbit families ? both their pasts and their futures in the Shire she?s built, so carefully crafted alongside Tolkien?s. Keep up the good work Lindelea ? I?ll try to be a better fan in the future and be more consistent with my reading and reviews.

Lindelea is a caring and dedicated author, whose love of Hobbits and her love of her work shines through in her fascinating details and carefully woven plots and twisting subplots. Working within Tolkien?s Middle-earth, she?s crafted an elaborate world within a world with her extended hobbit families ? both their pasts and their futures in the Shire she?s built, so carefully crafted alongside Tolkien?s. Keep up the good work Lindelea ? I?ll try to be a better fan in the future and be more consistent with my reading and reviews.

Lindelea is a caring and dedicated author, whose love of Hobbits and her love of her work shines through in her fascinating details and carefully woven plots and twisting subplots. Working within Tolkien?s Middle-earth, she?s crafted an elaborate world within a world with her extended hobbit families ? both their pasts and their futures in the Shire she?s built, so carefully crafted alongside Tolkien?s. Keep up the good work Lindelea ? I?ll try to be a better fan in the future and be more consistent with my reading and reviews.

Lindelea is a caring and dedicated author, whose love of Hobbits and her love of her work shines through in her fascinating details and carefully woven plots and twisting subplots. Working within Tolkien?s Middle-earth, she?s crafted an elaborate world within a world with her extended hobbit families ? both their pasts and their futures in the Shire she?s built, so carefully crafted alongside Tolkien?s. Keep up the good work Lindelea ? I?ll try to be a better fan in the future and be more consistent with my reading and reviews.

With her mystery story, Lindelea does something that all good mystery writers do: she drops clues ahead of time in such a way that you dont' always see them until you reach the end. It's a difficult thing to do because you have to have a solid outline of the plot, the twist, the characters and the mystery itself so that you can drop seemingly innocuous clues along the way and have them prove relevant later. But Lindelea pulls it off, and by the end of the story, it feels very complete and most of the loose ends have been tied together.

Lindelea is a caring and dedicated author, whose love of Hobbits and her love of her work shines through in her fascinating details and carefully woven plots and twisting subplots. Working within Tolkien?s Middle-earth, she?s crafted an elaborate world within a world with her extended hobbit families ? both their pasts and their futures in the Shire she?s built, so carefully crafted alongside Tolkien?s. Keep up the good work Lindelea ? I?ll try to be a better fan in the future and be more consistent with my reading and reviews.

Lindelea is a caring and dedicated author, whose love of Hobbits and her love of her work shines through in her fascinating details and carefully woven plots and twisting subplots. Working within Tolkien?s Middle-earth, she?s crafted an elaborate world within a world with her extended hobbit families ? both their pasts and their futures in the Shire she?s built, so carefully crafted alongside Tolkien?s. Keep up the good work Lindelea ? I?ll try to be a better fan in the future and be more consistent with my reading and reviews.

Lindelea is a caring and dedicated author, whose love of Hobbits and her love of her work shines through in her fascinating details and carefully woven plots and twisting subplots. Working within Tolkien?s Middle-earth, she?s crafted an elaborate world within a world with her extended hobbit families ? both their pasts and their futures in the Shire she?s built, so carefully crafted alongside Tolkien?s. Keep up the good work Lindelea ? I?ll try to be a better fan in the future and be more consistent with my reading and reviews.

I am amazed by the way this author is able to pull so many characters and so many smaller stories together to make one exciting tale. She is a master of the cliff hanger. She knows her cannon and her stories are always exciting. I have nearly drown, died from pain, given up hope of finding my way home, and been unable to reclaim my honor and my family along with her hobbits. She puts the reader in the story by bringing the characters to life.