#the book orlando

[13eyond13]

Please tell me about art and media you know of that accurately captures the weirdness of dream logic and atmosphere and emotions... books and movies and video games and art and comics and YouTube stuff, whatever you want... you know, where it only makes sense on an intuitive level and falls apart when you try to explain it...

[wedarkacademia]

Her eyes are pure stars, and her fingers, if they touch you, freeze you to the bone.

~ Virginia Woolf, Orlando

[lets-get-lit]

The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice. 

- Virginia Woolf, Orlando

[gameraboy2]

Secrets of Haunted House #20 (1980) Art by Joe Orlando

[blinkinbrothershark]

Being a newsies fan while watching musicals is realising that almost every musical protaganist has their 'Santa Fe'

Legally Blonde - Elle Woods: Warner Huntington III

The Book of Mormon - Kevin Price: Orlando

Falsettos - Marvin: A tight-knit family

The list can continue further, but these were the three that I noticed originally. Also feel free to add onto the list ofc

[the-evil-clergyman]

Illustrations from Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso by Gustave Doré (1879)

[velvet4510]

If you consider the story of LOTR itself - and, more specifically, the Fellowship members - in full chronological order including the appendices, the story technically ends with Gimli and Legolas departing from Middle-earth, the last ones left of the family that they found so many years ago, during an age of war.

If the movie trilogy had told the entire tale, the final scene would’ve been the aged dwarf and eternally-young Elf turning away from the tombs of their departed king and two dear hobbit friends from so long ago, walking out of Minas Tirith to the shores of Ithilien, stepping onboard a little ship, and sailing into the horizon together.

Just imagine seeing Orlando and John performing a silent scene like that, perhaps in a long take with a few dissolves and quiet music, to end the trilogy on.

One can dream…

[miiiddleearth]

I am at home among trees.

[thebeautifulbook]

ORLANDO FURIOSO IN ENGLISH HISTORICAL VERSE by Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533) (London: G. Miller for I. Parker, 1634). Full-page engravings preceding each book are copied from those by Girolamo Porro for de Franceschi’s Venice edition of 1584.

Sir John Harrington’s translation first published in 1591 by Richard Field.

Held by the Getty Research Institute.

source

[brokehorrorfan]

Halloween's original movie novelization by Richard Curtis (under the pen name Curtis Richards) is being republished for the first time in over four decades, newly illustrated with nearly 100 pieces by Orlando Arocena.

Printed in Blood will debut the 224-page hardcover book with a limited edition at the Halloween: 45 Years of Terror convention in Pasadena, CA September 29-October 1. A standard version will be available in January. Both editions are up for pre-order for $50.

[thereadingchallengechallenge]

Review: The September House by Carissa Orlando Rating: 5/5

This is the kind of horror book I love - the kind I've tried to write for myself. A beautiful haunted house, an array of fantastic ghosts, and a protagonist with a weary demeanour who becomes oddly comfortable with the strange things happening around them.

There's a grim whimsy to The September House that feels sort of cozy in a discomfiting sort of way that I couldn't get enough of and I just loved how Orlando managed to build and keep the tension for such a long, and incredibly satisfying, denouement.

I never quite knew where this book was going, even though I knew hints were being dropped for me to pick up and puzzle over. I delighted in it all coming together, and had to remind myself to be sad, before I actually felt sad. So many wonderful, unusual emotions came out of me while I read this book. 

I would recommend this to anyone who loves a good haunting story and I will 110% be keeping an eye out for whatever Carissa Orlando writes next!  

[booksandglitter]

"what more terrifying revelation can there be than that it is the present moment?"

📚finally finished Orlando by Virginia Woolf!!📚 my first book by her and I really liked it! I gave it 4 stars⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ the prose is incredibly rich, which can be difficult to read at times honestly, and the story of Orlando's life was really interesting I read this for uni to write an essay on it and there are so many interesting bits in it that would be amazing to analyse!!! I'm so happy to be excited ablout a research project again🙂‍↕️ this modernist fictional biography is very queer and if you don't mind the dense prose and some cultural insensitivity (cause it's from the 1920s) I would really recommend this!

[failedgrailknight]

Orlando confirmed silliest book character ever

[inthegoodbooks]

the hobbit (review)

Right, I know I am a million years late here (ok, more like 87) but jesus fucking christ I loved this book. I’ve been a fan of the Lord of the Rings films since I first saw them with my dad back in the early noughties but having never sat through an entire The Hobbit movie (soz) I didn’t know that much about the story of this one tbh. I knew there was a dragon? Some treasure? A group of dwarves and maybe one of them is gay and totally into Bilbo? (That may have been more tumblr’s version of events but I was willing to believe it and - guess what - still willing to believe it tbh.)

Some of my preconceived notions of course were accurate (ok, all of them) but what I didn’t anticipate was just how much I would bloody love it. Tolkien’s style gets a lot of praise, understandably so, but I wasn’t aware of just how much it would gel with me. Its almost satire-like humour was flawless, and it really gave me the impression of someone sitting me down to tell me a bedtime story; of course, this was exactly how these books were initially intended and it shows. But it works. I am totally of the opinion that this would make a fabulous audiobook, and I can’t wait to check them out in a couple of years once I’ve done my first proper read-through.

My favourite thing about this were the introductions we get to all of the different creatures, races and creeds in Middle Earth. The elves, goblins (orcs in later works) and eagles in particular were an absolute joy to read and get to know. Legoloas’ character in the films was always my favourite (my big queer crush on Orlando Bloom in a blonde wig may have had an influence there but we’re not here to talk about that…) so it was super fun to get to know some of the elves in this novel. I love the idea that the elves were fully just living their lives with Bilbo kicking about all invisible, making no noise whatsoever. The things he must have been privy to… I digress…

The eagles were a great introduction too. My partner and I watched The Return of the King on the night I finished this and I was so delighted to fully appreciate their significance at the end. A dear co-worker of mine (and HUGE Tolkien fan) has said they play an even more interesting role in The Silmarillion so I am really looking forward to reading that once I’m done with the original trilogy.

Everything in me wants to binge them now, but I have some big reading plans over the next few months so I am planning on doing one a month. Considering I read this in two days, I don’t think that is beyond the possibility of belief.

Well done Tolkien, you have impressed. 5 stars, obviously.

[wronghands1]