2005 Author Reviews for
Nancy Brooke

NancyBrooke has a wonderful ability to paint pictures with startling and delightful clarity, sometimes with very few words; whether in the constricted and exacting form of the drabble, or in longer pieces, there is a technical skill evident that is well matched by an obvious love for the characters and world she writes about. Her words, in form and flow, give as much to the story as their meanings, and the insights into personalities as diverse in history and temperament as Gandalf, Pippin, Boromir and Grima are wonderfully shown throughout her work.

Most everything the Duchess puts her font to ultimately manifests an amazingly adept use of language. I am humbled by Nancy's ability to, in as few words as possible, paint a brilliantly painful moment in the life of a character. She has done it with some of the most beloved canon characters. More amazingly, however, she has managed to evoke the same profound emotion using obscure and even conjured characters as well with the same artistically rendered significance. If it is true that a picture can paint a thousand words, then I venture to suggest that Nancy is that artists beta, charged with reducing those thousand words by ten times without losing the depth, character or one iota of the emotional impact of the original work. Nancy is proof that words are meaningless when wheeled by a bumbling hand and that most moments in time can be profoundly summed up in one hundred words.