Legenda 59: Stuff worth reading

[Legenda offers a brief, non-inclusive index of stuff I noticed and enjoyed since the last episode. It doesn’t usually include materials presented on the major fansites, which I love dearly, but which are linked in the sidebar. Because I always forget or just miss stuff, please add additional pieces of interest via link in the comments.]

Everybody has an opinion!

A few more reviews of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey:

• [No spoilers]: Jazzbaby1: is thrilled!
• [No spoilers]: Beverly Farr: Loved it but will not be standing in line for the “Thorin gets married” sequel.
• [No spoilers]: mulubinba: loved it too.
• [Spoilers]: Maria Grazia: calls it “an unexpected pleasure.”
• [Spoilers]: Ania: moved to tears (English at bottom of post).

Richard Armitage ARchive:

• At RAFrenzy: Beverly Farr: an author inspired by Richard Armitage.
• GB’s interpretation of the final scenes of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.
• FedoraLady’s been writing about some remakes she’d like to have Armitage star in: her personal first choice, and then some swashbuckling possibilities.
• Armitage future: Frenzy ponders Black Sky.
• via Jonia on FB: Will people name their kids “Thorin” this year? If so, it wouldn’t be the first time that an Armitage role was said to influence UK naming practices.
• The Hobbit and forgiveness.
• The first Hobbit fan vids appear.
• Intriguing comparison of Thorin and Boromir.

Fanfic:

Yes, as the Hobbit press blitz abated, I finally read a couple this week! Hoping to start to get a look at the long list of stuff that’s awaiting me now.

• I linked earlier to KathrynD’s Lucas North fic, “The Christmas Eve Shift” — check it out if you ran into one of wattpad’s outages this week when you tried earlier.
• For DF readers: obscura has a neat little John Porter fic, “The Longest Night,” to keep us toasty over the winter solstice. Porter / OC / explicit. Hot! Sweet!

Tumblr:

• How many Megathorins is your favorite movie star?
• A pretty collage of Armitage Christmas messages past.
• It’s kind of fascinating to watch the reactions of the tumblr people who were not Armitage fans before, now learning about Armitage. You can get a sample if you look at the Richard Armitage tag on tumblr.

OT, collateral attractions, and things I think about:

• What are critics of The Hobbit really saying?
• via Tannni Tani on FB: Gandalf really cleans up.
• Twenty-five reasons why a beard changes everything.
• Kate Winslet marries. I guess Armitage’s agent didn’t take my suggestion that he introduce Ms. Winslet to Mr. Armitage …
• “What’s your credit score?” is now a first date question.
• Fantastic video interview with Simon Russell Beale (Home Secretary in the last two seasons of Spooks). Interesting: discussion of messing up a Royal Shakespeare Company audition, and also the note about “that fantastic English teacher” that a lot of actors encounter.
• On re-writing Dickens in English to make him more understandable. ??!?

~ by Servetus on December 29, 2012.