Lady Aranel
Stories nominated in 2006
A Shirt for Legolas : Races: Elves: Fixed-Length Ficlet Featuring Legolas or Thranduil (Story Info)
Preparing The Way : Genres: Drama: Elves in Later Ages - Second Place (Story Info)
The Lesson : Times: Fourth Age and Beyond: Incomplete (Story Info) WIP
The Salt-Rose : Genres: Romance: Incomplete (Story Info) WIP
With Bow and Blade : Races: Elves: Fixed-Length Ficlet Featuring Legolas or Thranduil (Story Info)
Reviewed by: Súlriel -- Score: 5
LadyA writes with a particular brand of sensual eroticism that is completely her own. She writes mostly of love, romance, but also family, friendship and of pain and loss. Her writing embodies for me the depth of emotion, both the highs and the lows that come with a relationship - and more importantly, sometimes, without. She conveys in her writing that with all good things come a cost and she takes you along on that journey with her characters, hoping, desiring, crying and loving. My only complaint about her work - like a broken record - is that there is never enough.
Reviewed by: Marta -- Score: 5
Lady Aranel gives Legolas a really distinct voice. Somehow he is both youthful and wise at the same time. In this year's selection you can see him being an understanding brother, a warrior with the heart of a leader paralleled to his father, and a person just like any other grieving the lost of a friend. I had always thought of Lady Aranel as a distinguished writer of romance (which she undoubtedly is), but the pieces by her I read for this year's MEFA's show that she has many other talents as well. Her ability to communicate powerful emotions quietly in a dignified way is especially noteworthy.