2006 Author Reviews for
Rhapsody/Robinka CoAuthors

Rhapsody is one of the most versatile and amazing writers in Lord of the Rings Fan Fiction that I know. She writes about so many characters and manages to pull it off every time. In the time that I have known her I have watched her grow so much as a writer, I am in awe. At first I was always impressed with the fact that she was an ESL writer and does it so well now, most people would never know English wasn?t her first language. Now that I know her as well as I do, I realize her writing has so much of her heart and her love for each character in it. She will research something to the very smallest detail but still manages to put so much emotion into her writing; you don?t even realize how much research she might have done for it. Her brain and her heart work in perfect concert together to write a story, whether it is one hundred words long or multi-chapters, you always feel the full impact of what she was trying to convey. I have not read one of her stories and felt like something was missing which in drabbles and short stories is so difficult. I personally struggle with writing short stories at all. I cannot get all my characterizations, details, and the events all in just a few pages. Rhapsody does not have this problem. Her Maglor became my Maglor in my head. She has claimed that character and every time I read something she has written with him as her character I know what to expect. I know him as well as I know the movie versions of the other characters just because she has explored him in so many different ways and from different angles, I have seen how he will react under different circumstances. I think certain people claim characters so well and she has done that with Maglor and is starting to become that way with Celegorm. Her knowledge of their history is immense. In fact her Silmarillion and Lord of the Rings knowledge in general is extensive. I have not ever talked to her about The Hobbit because I haven?t read that one yet but I?m sure she has knowledge in that as well. I love her Feanorians in this story. Each are uniquely wonderful and she brings so much to their characters. Robinka is a newer writer and she has done amazingly well. I can remember her someone shy entry into writing Lord of the Rings fanfiction in English. She worked so hard to learn so much and so quickly. She find out a smaller character in the Silmarillion to latch onto and it was Beleg. I did not even remember him that well from the Silm until I started reading him through her eyes. Then he really made an impression on me. She has really outdone herself in this story. Taking her love of Beleg one-step further and creating the epic ?what if he didn?t die? story. I cannot wait to see where the two of them go with this story. With Robinka?s love of Beleg and Rhapsody?s love of the Feanorians combined in one story, its going to be wonderful. They have meshed their writing together beautifully so that it is almost seemless. Once again, two ESL writers kicking butts in LOTR fanfiction. Pouring heart, research, creativity, and damn hard work into every line and working it masterfully.