2005 Author Reviews for
thevina_finduilas

Thevina Finduilas has a real sense of humour in her stories. They're not humour, but there's usually a sense of humour (or perhaps just a strong sense of humanity) in all of her stories. It's not as wry as the humour I love in Thundera's story, but it's great fun. Beyond that, she probably writes the best characterisation of dwarves, and consistently, of any other author I have read.

Thevina Finduilas has a real sense of humour in her stories. They're not humour, but there's usually a sense of humour (or perhaps just a strong sense of humanity) in all of her stories. It's not as wry as the humour I love in Thundera's story, but it's great fun. Beyond that, she probably writes the best characterisation of dwarves, and consistently, of any other author I have read.

Thevina Finduilas has a real sense of humour in her stories. They're not humour, but there's usually a sense of humour (or perhaps just a strong sense of humanity) in all of her stories. It's not as wry as the humour I love in Thundera's story, but it's great fun. Beyond that, she probably writes the best characterisation of dwarves, and consistently, of any other author I have read.

Thevina Finduilas has a real sense of humour in her stories. They're not humour, but there's usually a sense of humour (or perhaps just a strong sense of humanity) in all of her stories. It's not as wry as the humour I love in Thundera's story, but it's great fun. Beyond that, she probably writes the best characterisation of dwarves, and consistently, of any other author I have read.

First person always makes me nervous. You're so firmly entrenched in someone else's head that it's very easy to do something that might be taken out of character. That said, I was blown away by this depiction of Gimli after the fall of the Morannon, and it's due to Thevina's amazing ability to paint a picture of a lost, desperate, battle-weary dwarf from the inside. The reader becomes completely immersed in Gimli's psyche, and his rambling thoughts tell us exactly how tired he is. We see only what he sees and only what he feels, and somehow in the midst of all this, Thevina manages to give the readers a very complete picture of what is happening. This is a great example of how first person should be done.

Thevina Finduilas has a real sense of humour in her stories. They're not humour, but there's usually a sense of humour (or perhaps just a strong sense of humanity) in all of her stories. It's not as wry as the humour I love in Thundera's story, but it's great fun. Beyond that, she probably writes the best characterisation of dwarves, and consistently, of any other author I have read.

Thevina Finduilas has a real sense of humour in her stories. They're not humour, but there's usually a sense of humour (or perhaps just a strong sense of humanity) in all of her stories. It's not as wry as the humour I love in Thundera's story, but it's great fun. Beyond that, she probably writes the best characterisation of dwarves, and consistently, of any other author I have read.