Eruvanye
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Joined 12-25-02, id: 315106
Greetings! I am Eruvanyë, one of the local LotR/Silmarillion purists. If you have come here furious because of a review I left on your fic, please note... I do not flame. The review was merely harshly phrased constructive criticism (exceptions to the not-flaming rule will be made if I have been flamed first or if it is obvious that the author is lying in their bio/author's notes - I do not like liars). I do not react particularly well to people who are too lazy to do us the common courtesy of spellchecking or refuse to treat Tolkien's work with the respect it deserves (for instance, relying on the movie for facts instead of looking up things in the books or the Silmarillion.) Furthermore, I tend to lose my temper with people who trivialize problems I have or have had - most noteably stuttering and depression - so this may also cause me to flame.
I will not accept age as an excuse for bad writing, unless you're *extremely* young (below eleven or twelve), as I am only seventeen years old myself and know that teenagers are quite capable of writing good stories. I will also only allow "English as a second language" as a limited excuse - my native tongue is German, and I know how to discern whether an author *really* does not speak English very well or is merely pretending because s/he is too lazy to check grammar and spelling. As said above, I do not like liars, so if I find out that you are doing the latter, there will be hell to pay. Also, if you speak English badly, get a beta-reader! Posting something on the Net is akin to publishing it, so it should be the best you can manage.
Ere you complain about my only criticizing stories and not posting my own, let it be known that I *do* write fanfiction and some of it *is* posted on FFN... just not under this nick. I know that some day, sooner or later, an incensed author will manage to get me banned (hey, whoever said FFN was
fair? Look at what happened to the PPC or to Harpwire!), and I would prefer it if my fics stayed up. If you e-mail me and prove to be a polite, interested, reasonable human being who does *not* want to obliterate all traces of me on FFN, I may give you the link.