Legenda 61: 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.]

This week was kind of a disaster. I spent a bunch of time yesterday sifting through stuff and marking it, but when I opened the draft this morning, I discovered that a lot of my changes hadn’t saved. So I ended up having to reread ten pages of trashed email and I probably missed some stuff. Then, just when I thought I had reconstructed what I had, I accidentally opened something up in this window and the reconstruction was lost as well. But I am determined! I combed through the links again. BUT. Please compensate for whatever gremlin is afflicting Legenda this week by leaving links of what YOU loved in the comments.

Also, if you liked something I indexed this week, please be sure to leave comments on the posts and keep Armitageworld writing away happily!

Reader-submitted photo of a theater lobby in London

mulubinba saw it the second time in IMAX in Sydney and loved it just as much. I’m hoping to see it in IMAX this week for the first time.

A moment for reflection

• Jazzbaby says goodbye — I hope for temporarily and not forevers.
• Judiang celebrates her second blogiversary, belatedly. Congratulations! Give her some love.
• And AgzyM celebrates her first! She needs love too, despite the weird thumb cupcake (grins).

Richard Armitage archive

• At West of Milton: Was Mr. Thornton a virgin?
• Jonia’s been going to town on her search for ever-higher res photos and has been able to do a lot of groundwork on the people who’ve been putting Richard Armitage together: a great post on his hairdressers; plus some wonderful closeup detail on the Michael Bastian suit we saw him wear in New York City — and my favorite of all, an identification of the charm he wore in 2006, for example, in the V&A photo shoot.
• Three Oscar nominations for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (though none for actors).
• When jokes are so good that they seem real. Jas had to go to FB, where the interview had shown up as real, and explain that it was a spoof.
• The best photoshoot of Richard Armitage that you’ve never seen.
• Via Herba: The Hobbit crack!video #2. Uneven, but some cuts are falling down hilarious. Can’t touch dis!
• At Heirs of Durin: A thorough comparison of Thorin and Boromir.
• A powerful reflection on Thorin’s decision to combat Azog, and the role of the past, and of love and desire, in decisionmaking.
• There’s a new fansite.
• A lot of us have been enjoying our newly-found capacity to say the name “Richard Armitage” and not have people look at us blankly — or even have other people mention the name to us in other conversations. Pesky told me this week, when we were talking about the film, that he didn’t like Richard Armitage in the role of Thorin! (Not that I’m applauding that sentiment, but Pesky doesn’t know about my little obsession). And I just discovered that one of my favorite conservative Christian homeschooling mom bloggers liked Armitage in the role! This excites me no end — it’s a tough crowd to please.
• Ania loved it a second time (English at end of post).

Fanfic

I’m easing back in but I’ve got a month of links to look at, so be easy on me, too.

• This is a Hiddleston fic — RPF, not explicit (and no, I’m not changing teams) that is so evocative of so many of my life questions that I cried when I read it. More about this soon.
• At RAucous: “Hot August Night” (explicit, RPF) comes to a satisfying conclusion in more ways than one; and a short about spending New Year’s Eve in London with Armitage (not explicit, RPF).
• Here’s a new one I haven’t read.

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A reminder that the Richard Armitage tag is here. I spent a lot of time yesterday on the Thorin tag here, and there were a bunch of people just discovering Armitage. It’s such a pleasure to read. Something I love — the fanfic writers have gotten hold of Thorin, Fili, and Kili. They are going to loosen us up a lot, and I’m really happy about that. But yes, even my eyes open when I see descriptions like “Durincest” for fanfics appearing there.

• On empathizing with Lucas North as “homeless.”
• South Park Oakenshield.
• What you can do while waiting to see The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.
• Beautiful Thorin / Thranduil animated GIF.
• On the relationship of Guy of Gisborne to Thorin Oakenshield.
• A really popular tag for Thorin on tumblr at the moment is #majestic. But it’s spreading further than that!
• According to Graham McTavish, what Thorin said to Dwalin after Elrond invited them to dinner.
• Gorgeous drawing of Thorin with his young nephews.
• Thinking about why you react to Armitage the way you do.
• On not being able to avoid thoughts of Armitage.
• Beautiful Guy of Gisborne animated gifset.
• New explicit tumblrs to love: An Armitage Affair; Tolkien After Hours; Dirty Hobbit Confessions.

OT, collateral attractions, and stuff I think about

• For lovers of impressionism and The Impressionists: You can see a Manet exhibit in London.
• Aaron Swartz, 26, commits suicide.
• More on the slightly mysterious Fran Walsh.
• Amazing save by the goalie of the Peruvian U-20 soccer team.
• Profile / interview of Rufus Sewell.

~ by Servetus on January 12, 2013.