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Author: Jeodo Brandybuck · ID: 271 · Races/Places: Hobbits (90): General
Reviewer: grey_wonderer · 2005-09-08 02:44:38
I fell in love with this author's writing style early on while reading one of her tales. I love the way she characterizes the hobbits and the way she mixes humor with love and understanding. I always come away from one of her stories with a smile on my face.
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Author: Dreamflower · ID: 115 · Races/Places: Hobbits (90): General
Reviewer: grey_wonderer · 2005-09-08 02:49:26
I feel as if I know this author's hobbits personally because she makes them come alive when she writes. The one that springs to mind instantly is her Fredegar Bolger. She has given him such strength and such a wonderful personality that I feel as if he's been over to my house for a meal or two. I love the way she fills in the gaps without leaving the canon behind. Her hobbits are humorous, warm, intelligent and very true to character at all times. She charms me with her writing.
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Author: pippinfan88 · ID: 331 · Races/Places: Hobbits (90): General
Reviewer: grey_wonderer · 2005-09-08 02:52:54
I have favorite scenes in this author's stories that easily spring to mind. That is how much I enjoy her writing. Her stories about pre-quest Merry and Pippin are wonderful and full of humor and emotion. She can write drama, canon, or humor equally well. Just at present I am enjoying a romance that she is writing. I look forward to many more stories from this talented writer.
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Author: SilverMoonLady · ID: 343 · Races/Places: Hobbits (90): General
Reviewer: grey_wonderer · 2005-09-08 02:55:37
This wonderful author was the first person who's fiction I read that gave me a sense of romance between the hobbits. She writes grown-up hobbits with adult lives and loves. She is very expert at writing the small details that flesh out a story and give it more depth.
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Author: pearltook1 · ID: 72 · Races/Places: Hobbits (90): General
Reviewer: grey_wonderer · 2005-09-08 02:59:35
I am constantly surprised by this author. She makes me see things from new angles that I had failed to consider. Even the most traditional subject becomes an adventure in one of her stories. I have several of her saved as favorites that I have read many times over. I think that one of the things that makes this author's stories so entertaining is her characterizations. She brings new insight into minor characters and she isn't afraid to tackle a long story.
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Author: SlightlyTookish · ID: 205 · Races/Places: Hobbits (90): General
Reviewer: grey_wonderer · 2005-09-08 03:02:27
If I want to find an entertaining Pippin story, I check to see if this author has written anything new. I love her Pippin. She writes wonderful humor and her stories are always well thought out. She never leaves loose ends, but I always wish for more because I am enjoying her writing so much.
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Author: GamgeeFest · ID: 269 · Races/Places: Hobbits (90): General
Reviewer: grey_wonderer · 2005-09-08 03:05:42
Here is an author who writes adventure in with her humor. Her stories always include a bit of action along with the humor. Her hobbits get out and do things and the action is well written and very entertaining. She may just be my favorite author for Sam Gamgee stories because her Sam is humble but he can also be a force to be reckoned with.
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Author: Auntiemeesh · ID: 395 · Races/Places: Hobbits (90): General
Reviewer: grey_wonderer · 2005-09-08 03:07:51
Entertaining writing and very inventive at times. Can write parody or stick to the cannon. I enjoy reading her stories and look forward to each new posting. She does the relationships between the hobbits extremely well.
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Author: Anso the Hobbit · ID: 386 · Races/Places: Hobbits (90): General
Reviewer: grey_wonderer · 2005-09-08 03:09:59
You can tell that this author knows her hobbits. All of her stories are filled with friendship and humor. She writes lovely angst from time to time too. Lots of talent.
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Author: Hai Took · ID: 396 · Races/Places: Hobbits (90): General
Reviewer: grey_wonderer · 2005-09-08 03:11:40
The author has a wonderful way of involving the reader in her stories with her discriptions. I never fail to be entertained by her writing.
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Author: Lindelea · ID: 27 · Races/Places: Hobbits (90): General
Reviewer: grey_wonderer · 2005-09-08 03:16:33
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.
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Author: Llinos · ID: 25 · Races/Places: Hobbits (90): Poem
Reviewer: grey_wonderer · 2005-09-08 03:19:30
This author brings talent and humor to her poems. She leaves me laughing every time. She has a wonderful way with parody and the lines seem to flow into one another seamlessly. The only problem with her poems is that there aren't enough of them. Terrific writing!
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Author: Marigold · ID: 98 · Races/Places: Hobbits (90): Drabble
Reviewer: grey_wonderer · 2005-09-08 03:21:41
I can't do drabbles and so I admire those who can. This author says so much with so few words. Truly a talent. Her drabbles display a great deal of feeling and I am always impressed and entertained.
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Author: Nickey · ID: 374 · Races/Places: Hobbits (90): General
Reviewer: grey_wonderer · 2005-09-08 03:23:49
I love the darker undercurrent in this author's work. The characters always have a bit of angst or a longing that is beneath the surface but there is also humor in the stories. It's tough to get this mix to work and this author always shines.
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Author: Larner · ID: 242 · Genres: Drama (includes Angst) (135): General
Reviewer: grey_wonderer · 2005-09-08 03:27:43
Stunning attention to detail. Lovely discriptions. A wonderful way with words. This author has a flare for a good, long adventure with lots of history. Also very talented when it comes to back stories for the characters. Knows the canon and can blend new and orginal characters seamlessly into it as if they were always there.
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Author: Mariposa · ID: 270 · Genres: Drama (includes Angst) (135): General
Reviewer: grey_wonderer · 2005-09-08 03:30:03
I can never get enough of this author's stories. Lovely angst and romance and friendship. I can see the places in her stories if I close my eyes because the discriptions are so vivid.
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Author: pearltook1 · ID: 72 · Genres: Drama (includes Angst) (135): General
Reviewer: grey_wonderer · 2005-09-08 03:37:12
This author writes epics. Her writing takes you along for the ride and you are never disappointed. I like her use of the major character's families in her stories. She writes excellent angst but she doesn't over-do the suffering. Her hobbits may be in danger but you never feel as if they are without hope. I think this holds true to Tolkien's discription of the hobbits and their outlook on things. Very, very talented and very entertaining writer.
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Author: SilverMoonLady · ID: 343 · Genres: Romance (72): General
Reviewer: grey_wonderer · 2005-09-08 03:41:13
This author writes about hot steamy romances with deep relationships behind it all. Very adult and very sexy. She also gives you a wonderful storyline and well defined characters. Brilliant!
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Author: Tom Fairbairn · ID: 371 · Genres: Adventure (13): General
Reviewer: grey_wonderer · 2005-09-08 03:45:29
I have never read anything like this author's fiction. His Pippin is bold, brave, foolish, a bit naughty, and quite sexy. His stories are filled with wonderful original characters and there is excitement in every chapter. I love the way he writes action sequences. I see a movie in my head when I read his stories. I won't be surprised if he publish his own novel one of these days, excited, but not surprised.
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Author: Forodwaith · ID: 50 · Genres: Horror (8): General
Reviewer: Ainaechoiriel · 2005-09-08 11:06:38 Score: 3
Forodwaith has a distinct knack for the spooky. And one for characterization. Not being an Aragorn fan, she made me care for him, humanized him with his annoyance at Mallor and brought Mallor into a full character in only a few pages. I'm impressed.
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Author: Ghettoelleth · ID: 237 · Genres: Romance (72): Incomplete
Reviewer: Alassante · 2005-09-08 16:33:11
If I had half of the eloquent writing skills that Ghettoelleth did, I might be able to do her justice in this review. However, I do not. Therefore, I will just do my best to express some key elements of her writing that make her an incredible writer.

Her characterization of both original characters and canon characters is amazing. The original characters are complete with rich and multi-layered three-dimensional personalities. Whether you are supposed to love them or hate them, they are never fully perfect – either perfectly bad or perfectly good in their personality, which is true to real life to me. Her characters are neither Gary Stu nor Mary Sue yet you do not feel as she is writing them to force you to feel one way or another about them. They just are what they are and you form your own opinions about them. Her canon characters are similar. Even in her stories that have not been nominated she has taken some characters that are evil or bad in the Silmarillion and has allowed you to see what could have caused them to be the way they were even if you still think they were “bad guys”. Her heroes are flawed yet you still think of them as the hero without question. Whether she is writing a character that is well known in the books or little known and portrayed a million ways in the fan fiction world, she has made that character uniquely hers in her writing style. Glorfindel has been taken to a whole new level by her writing. As loved a character as he always was, I have only seen one other writer write him to the level of me saying – “Yes, that is what Tolkien would want us to feel and think about him.” Her Glorfindel is so outstanding that I struggle writing my own Glorfindel because he is a “Ghetto Glorfindel Wanna-Be”. And she has written an AU Caranthir so sexy and deep, no one can touch him. It’s a good thing no one I know writes him because she would blow them away. Even her AU Maeglin is sexy and sympathetic. Its amazing and I just pray that she does not decide to start writing the characters I write cause I would have to curl up in a ball and cry when she wrote circles around me! Thankfully she has not written those characters and I am thinking of paying her to keep that up. Hehe

As far as her writing style goes, she is fluid and graceful in Circle of Hands to the point where you feel totally immersed in her world. You feel what her characters feel. You see what they see, the way they see it. The story just draws you in so much that when you come to the end of the chapter you are heartbroken that it’s over. I have laughed and cried many times and sometimes I have even laughed until I cried. Her command of the English language is incredible. She does not throw out useless five-dollar words to impress but she does not write like a high school student. Her details and descriptions are very visual yet they are not overdone to the point of boredom. Some writers, even professional ones, go off on a descriptive passage and by the time they are done describing it, I have to go back and read what they were talking about before the description. That does not happen with Ghetto but she does not glaze over details either.

Last thing I would like to say is this writer researches every Tolkien text, website, forum thread, etc to make sure her facts are correct. I remember one time she told me she spent half the day researching something and I was amazed because it was something so small in her story, it took up less than a paragraph overall. She is not one of these that writes it and says it is that way because she said so. But she also does not go to the canon extreme in her AU story. She wants to make sure that Tolkien never said discussed it before she makes it up or that he never said it was impossible before she writes it happening, she just clarifies that she is not breaking canon.

Overall, Ghetto is an excellent writer and I think she should write original fiction. After she finishes all of her current stories, of course.

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Author: SilverMoonLady · ID: 343 · Books/Time: Post-Ring War (142): General
Reviewer: Alassante · 2005-09-08 16:53:13
First I must admit, I do not read hobbit stories very often. In fact, I have probably read five (not counting drabbles). Of those five, four have been SilverMoonLady’s stories. Her writing blows me away so much that I do not care if she was writing about mushrooms, it would be interesting and beautiful. I began to read her writing because of drabble challenges that we had on Open Scrolls Archive (OSA). Her drabbles ranged anywhere from cute, funny, sexy, romantic, beautiful, dark, to poignant. It opened my eyes to how wonderful her writing was as well. We did a little drabble challenge of our own on LiveJournal and I challenged her to write elf smut, knowing she was a hobbit girl. Her drabble was so beautifully erotic, I was stunned almost speechless. And it was not dirty smut. It was romantic and beautiful because of her elegant and graceful wording, much like a historical writer. She will not be the next Danielle Steel but she might be the next Emily Dickenson.

She actually wrote a drabble about a hobbit that was so hot and sexy. I was taken aback. These creatures that previously were childlike to the point of being non-sexy were suddenly very erotic because of a short one hundred words. Tolkien could not do that for me in four books. Peter Jackson could not do it in three movies. She did it in one hundred words.

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