Legenda 37: 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.]

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RArchive:

• Comments on Hobbit vlog #8 all over the place. My favorites: at R(A)ilment; at The Armitage Effect.
• JasRangoon excerpts her favorite Armitage quote regarding dwarves. Interesting comment there suggests that Armitage is flirtier when being interviewed by a woman.
• ComicCon and Armitage’s eyes.
• Fabi, posting at La Loba, on Armitage’s remark re: myths vs legends in Tolkien.
• My favorite new thing to follow on Twitter: @RichardsBeard.
• Another pic of Armitage in an airport sent by a fan. From here it looks like the t-shirt sleeves were not serged, but just cut. Even better.
• beengizzied guests at bccmee’s: “Richard Armitage Housework Helpers.“
• Making Richard Armitage at home in Michigan.
• Speculation by people who are actually informed about the content of the spoilers in vlog #8 at Heirs of Durin.
• And Heirs of Durin’s complete screencap gallery for Hobbit vlog #8 (more than Thorin).
• “On Richard Armitage, Time, and Procrastination” and Armitage cheers her on!
• Jonia makes her calculations about Richard Armitage’s legs more exact.
• Four very different, but all strong, takes on Armitage fandom solidarity: at JasRangoon‘s, at CDoart‘s, at Jazzbaby1’s; at Something About Love.
• Was Richard Armitage too shy at ComicCon?
• On speculation about a third Hobbit film. My position, as always: Armitage should do what he wants to do.
• Was Mr. Thornton at the Olympics opening ceremonies?
• People that remind Traxy of Richard Armitage, #2.
• Gisby didn’t like this, but I did!
• mulubinba, experiencing sadness at the end of principal photography for The Hobbit.
• Thorin, Armitage, Stanislavski, Jung + Sartre.

Fanfic:

• Khandy’s “Birth of a Legend” goes to chapter 7.

OT, collateral attractions, and things I think about:

• Should female athletes be photographed naked?
• A story I didn’t know about the Lithuanian basketball team, The Grateful Dead, and the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.
• On becoming fascinated by something un-academic when you’re an academic.
• Chocolate wrappers behind the Iron Curtain.

~ by Servetus on July 29, 2012.