Legenda 52: 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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The famous poster in the snow, Manhattan, November 8, 2012. From a reader.

Hurricane “Sandy” aftermath continues:

I don’t have much to say about this except that I fear it went under in the election crush. Please don’t forget this. People on the U.S. East Coast still need our help. That includes first and foremost our thoughts and prayers. If you are led or can afford to give by donating money, here are some charities I have given money to in the past and can endorse: U.S. Red Cross; Presbyterian Disaster Assistance; World Vision. Here’s an article about donation to victims via amazon wish lists of local entities from political representatives to churches to Occupy. Here are links to Jewish organizations helping out. And for those who are there, volunteering and help their neighbors — I am thinking of you and praying for the success of your intentions.

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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey overdrive:

Something worth noting comes almost every day, and it’s not all here. So if you want the complete picture as it emerged, you need to look at one of the fansites.

Plans firmed up this week. Fabo is going to be attending the NYC premiere and party with two friends; Judit, Linda60 and Agzy are going to London; a private FB group started this week of people who will be going to Wellington, and they’ve put a Thorin photo on their car door to identify themselves. For those of us who aren’t going to a premiere, I saw several reports of buying tickets, like Zan’s. Then there were the Wellington fans who stood in line only to be disappointed, but were saved by Peter Jackson. Though I don’t think of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey as connected to “my entire life,” I am starting to understand that sentiment, and I was surprised, myself, how much I ended up caring about this question. If your plans are not firm, and you’re still looking for an HFR (48 fps) showing, here is the list of theaters that TORn is aware of. If you know of others, get in touch with them. And finally, a post I really admired on enjoying what you have, even when you can’t attend a premiere party and rub shoulders with the great man. GB is not planning to attend a premiere, but drew a wonderful cartoon depicting what would happen if he did. And if you are hoping against hope, Frenz explains how to win a trip.

In other news: A third TV spot, and a fourth with a little more Thorin, and Jas made GIFsets here. There are more posters, like the one in Polish. There are one minute previews for all the numbers on the Hobbit soundtrack. Some of the books have delivered; Fedoralady discusses an Armitage interview in one of them, and on this boyishly gross comment about eyebrows from Armitage. Ania writes eloquently about her reaction to one of the behind the scenes photos here (English at end). Zan got her stamps. Even Judi found some Thorin merchandise to make her happy.

Protecting rights for this film must be a never-ending job. Saul Zaentz sues again.

And finally (as I always say), let’s divert a cut for charity. You already know about the amazon possibilities at RichardArmitageNet.com and the ones at Richard Armitage Online, but here, CDoart explains how the stuff available on zazzle can be purchased to generate a charity donation.

RArchive:

Yes, some of us are still writing about something other than the Hobbit blitz.

• Back to the basics: #ArmitageWatch is watching North & South today.
• Zan’s 100th post and her first vid!
• A sensitive, mythologizing reading of John Standring from La Loba, with illustration by GB.
• I still don’t really get this, but I think the point is visual comparison — Richard Armitage, Thorin, and various guitar idols.
• Richard Armitage shrine? Yay for shrines!
• Richard Armitage as monkey.
• Coming attractions: GB’s take on Gary Morris Fuller in Black Sky Into the Storm.

Fanfic:

• Welcome LuciJane at wattpad, with “Love in the Safehouse” (Lucas North / OC / Spooks / R-rating). A hot one!
• Grati’s “Sir Guy’s Dilemma” (Guy of Gisborne / Robin Hood / OC / sometimes explicit) goes to ch. 3 and 4 (see disclaimers there).
• GB’s “One Last Try” goes to ch. 13. (Guy + Marian / Robin Hood / some chapters explicit). Suspenseful ending!
• At RAucous: “Not What They Expected” goes to ch. 2. Armitage and Sarina in the Alps! (RPF / to be explicit eventually). This is just sweet. Armitage wakes Sarina up and eats soup with her.
• Also at RAucous: “Two Pirates in the Night.” Armitage goes to a Halloween party (RPF / explicit). HOT!

Tumblr:

• GIFsets of the Denny’s vid.
• Richard Armitage characters click and drag game. (Older, but I hadn’t seen it yet.)
• Lucas North + coffee.

OT, collateral attractions, and stuff I think about:

• Jane Austen as consumer of celebrity culture.
• In the wake of Disney’s purchase of LucasFilm, epics we DON’T want to see Disney produce.
• From the annals of the petty: A food blogger whose frankly nasty subjects turned on him. I’m probably crazy for following London restaurant reviews when I’m almost never there, but this saddened me.
• On the fascination of college students with campus-wide zombie games.
• When will I feel grownup? I am sympathetic, insofar as when my parents were my age they were almost ready to send me to college.
• A missionary / midwife family with four children decides which books from their ample, beloved library will make the trip to their first posting in the Philippines.
• And, because I can’t help being a politics junkie — here are two pieces of thoughtful meta-politics in reaction to the election results: a non-partisan appeal to Barack Obama at the beginning of his second term from a medical missionary in Dakar who I’m pretty sure didn’t vote for him; and a comment on what piece of the election news we comment on filters down to the ears of our kids, included not least because of the kind of conversations between children that I overheard at shul this morning.

Also, I liked this, don’t know why:

Results of polls about reader attitudes toward the stuff:

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~ by Servetus on November 10, 2012.