Reviewed by: Imhiriel -- Score: 3

I very much enjoy Tanaqui's drabbles: in just 100 words, she manages to tell complex, entertaining stories, with vivid characterisations and deft details of descriptions. She captures especially well the Dúnedain of North and South and interactions among them, whether political or social.

Reviewed by: Marta -- Score: 10

Tanaqui is a long-time friend and beta reader, so it feels a bit odd to be reviewing not something that she wrote but how she functions as an author. I hold her writing abilities in the highest regard and always like to read what she has written in the Tolkien fandom because she has a knowledge of canon that transcends individual facts. Of course, once you try to jump from facts that Tolkien explicitly wrote to broader worldviews about how a culture would have operated you enter the realm of interpretation. And I have not agreed with every assertion Tanaqui has made, but I have been able to accept her inventions as something Tolkien would have approved of; they are very much in the spirit and letter of his Middle-earth. Tanaqui uses an exquisite amount of physical detail in her works, without her pieces feeling like an infodump. That's what I remember when I think about her, how rich the world she creates is. She once joked that in a drabble we are allowed seven words for a title, one hundred for the body of the text -- and three thousand for the requisite footnotes and forenotes documenting the historical precedents, canon sources, and the thoughts that led up to the drabble. That really summarizes her approach to writing in general: not that she uses too many footnotes(!) but that for every bit she puts in, there's much more going on below the surface. I'm not sure how much she'll appreciate a comparison to movieverse, but her writing really does remind me of WETA's dedication to crafting props that were works of art, even if they barely made it on to screen or not at all. It creates a very rich backdrop for her stories, and this reader loves it.

Reviewed by: Marigold -- Score: 2

Tanaqui has an ability to capture a reader’s attention and draw them into whatever genre and style she turns her hand to.