Reviewed by: Dwimordene -- Score: 4

Ottis413 takes full advantage of the possibilities provided by the alternate universe scenario. Ottis413 is satisfyingly ruthless, willing to play out the failure of the Quest to a full end, and is not afraid to work with original characters. Pacing is good--nothing feels too stretched out nor too quickly resolved. The alternate situation is well explored--one can easily believe that it might have turned out this way, for the characters fit their settings well.

Reviewed by: Súlriel -- Score: 5

I discovered Ottis last year and Open Scrolls archive and avidly read anything and everything he posts. His humor is woven with real life issues and his drama carries through with an under current of the humor that is present in all walks of life. He writes a canon Middle-earth with a gritty realism that I appreciate a great deal. I especially like the conflicts and tension he uses in his plots and his consistency and depth of characterization, be it Eowyn, Elrond or any number of OCs, they are both true to how I see JRRT's image and yet uniquely in Ottis' style and voice.

Reviewed by: Marta -- Score: 4

Ottis writes dark really well -- so well that I started but found I could not finish the one piece in this category (for personal reasons). It sent shivers all down my spine, and the events progressed so naturally that it was all too easy to see how Bree could have ended up like this. It's a great skill needed in an AU. Because AU isn't an excuse to throw canon out the window, but to change one specific fact and let the story unfold from there. Ottis has clearly mastered that art, and I wouldn't mind seeing more AU's from this author in the future.