Reviewed by: annmarwalk -- Score: 10

I’m always a bit stunned by how effortlessly you seem to change from the author of the lighthearted Bitty stories, to the woman who coolly gives us both the horrific NotQuiteDead!Denethor of “Come When You Are Ready” and NotAltogetherAlive!Finduilas of “Do Not Think Me A Dream”. It’s quite indicative of your skill and imagination that you so deftly take on these personas, intuit their tales with compassion and grace, and pass them on to us. All your writing is a feast to read, but your erotica is sublime – subtle, understated, yet conveying such heat and passion that it takes my breath away. Even your drabbles, such as “Following Orders”, are startlingly original, precise, and pack a wallop either by characterization, or dialogue, or just the awesomeness of your premise. The original or unexplored canon characters you’ve given us - Theodred, Imriel, Randir, Nanny – are living, breathing, people with full lives that existed outside the story. Their lives will continue when the story is done, even if we are not there to see it. Does this make sense? Let me try it another way: it’s not as if they are minor characters, plucked out of nowhere to exist for a few hundred words on a page. They are real people, taking time out of their busy lives to talk to us. Thank you for finding them so we could meet and hear them.

Reviewed by: Dwimordene -- Score: 6

EdorasLass is a character writer--characterization is her strength, and she shows herself capable of writing both adults and children, in a variety of different moods. She really captures the emotional tone, the insecurities and the high points, the petty childishness where appropriate and its resolutions, defensiveness, and all such moods as may be called for. She also knows how to generate suspense, even when we know already how the story will resolve itself in a gap-filler, which takes some work and talent! Her alternate universe scenarios, whether they are slight modifications to allow some greater sense of closure, or else more radical breaks, are very well done and take good advantage of the AU form, and again let her show off her skills in characterizing various canonical characters.

Reviewed by: Raksha the Demon -- Score: 4

EdorasLass is one of the most consistently entertaining storytellers I know, with a most versatile literary repertoire - heart-rending AU stories, a light slash vignette, a melancholy story of a mother visiting the sleeping sons she know will lose her too soon, and the wonderful tales of the brothers 'Mir as children. She knows how to vary the style, tone, and pacing of each story to suit her purpose, and her characterisation is usually excellent.

Reviewed by: Marta -- Score: 10

Edoras Lass is another one of those authors that has developed a compelling subworld around the canonical facts we know about Gondor and Rohan. There are customs and cultural expectations that seem reasonable even though Tolkien never specified them, and they enrich the characters' lives and the corners of canon that Tolkien never filled in. Her original character Nanny is a good example. In "Mine" we see her patience and unfaltering commonsensical wisdom when it comes to dealing with a child as difficult as Boromir must have been. And in "Quality Time" there's a glimpse of her dealing with the equally difficult man Denethor. She's a compelling character and provides a unique window into Denethor's world. But then there are the canonical characters. Her characterizations are always convincing but feel fresh. She adds to and builds on what Tolkien told us, but in a way that feels true to Middle-earth. Nowhere is this better illustrated than in the way Faramir reacts to his father's infirmity in "Come When You Are Ready". The nauseating physical details are only too clearly told, but the way Faramir deals with them is so in-character! He does not flinch, does not shy away, but he is not untouched by the gore. And Denethor as well is touchingly portrayed: bound by duty to his family and to Gondor, cunning in the way he tries to piece together the mystery. EL is a great author if you like one-shots and shorts that develop the canon in a convincing way but aren't afraid to add on. Her stories are refreshingly fresh yet still feel Tolkienesque.

Reviewed by: Marigold -- Score: 3

EdorasLass has a real talent for writing engaging stories. I have only recently discovered her PonyVerse and am just enchanted with the way she has captured young Boromir and Faramir.