Reviewed by: Rhapsody -- Score: 10

A while ago, someone asked on the OSA board if there were any stories out there, which focussed on Arwen specifically. For some reason unknown to me, I never got far since I recced about four works, but I immediately had to think of Alassante’s works. Her poem ‘Here you cannot leave me’ feels like a strongly written work featuring this character and her drabble “My eyes! My Eyes!” only confirmed that she is one of the best Arwen drabble/writers. In the last work, it was delightfully cheeky! Besides this, Alassante is a great poet. She really knocked me off my feet with Eru’s Lament (incorporated in the Feänorian drabble series), which besides keeping to a specific drabble length it is just brilliantly created in free verse and fits this fandom seamlessly. “Here you cannot leave me” is so powerfully written that it leaves me in tears and simply shows how well Alassante can put so much feeling and emotion in a poem. She does the same in her original poems where she does not shy away to get raw emotions on paper, something you see often with poets. Not everyone is comfortable with that, but Alassante takes on that challenge. This combined with crawling under her character’s skin, gives me the impression that Alassante is a very gifted poet and I hope she will create more of these beautiful gems.