The Hobbit Trading Card

The Hobbit:An Unexpected Journey trading card were released on 07.09.2014
however there is now a chance win a special insert trading card from Cryptozoic The Hobbit trading cards and hope to get an autographed card from Richard Armitage, Martin Freeman and the other cast members of The Hobbit and Philippa Boyens. No elves.

  Now there are five cards to a pack and the cost $3.50 with the base set (I guess that means total) of 101 trading cards. With that being said we do not have to purchase the trading cards from Cryptozoic  . Those of us living in the U.S. can mail a postcard with our name and return address to:

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Trading Cards

C/O No Purchase Necessary

25351CommercenterDrive

Suite 250

Lake Forest,CA 92630

  There is a limit of One (1) entry/postcard per day, per address, per set.

Complete rules : http://www.cryptozoic.com/NPN



Thorin Oakenshield

Nephew Kili

Nephew Fili (Dean O'Gorman being funny)

Dwalin

Balin

Dori

Azog

Bilbo

RA Calendar - February 2015

Happy Valentine's everyone. Hope it is good to you. The picture is from Richard's interview from Classic Love Poems

Happy Valentine's Day From Richard Armitage

From Richard posted today on Twitter Ralph Waldo Emerson's poem Give All to Love for us for Valentine's Day.

Richard then enclosed a Valentine's cartoon of himself. He is such a sweetheart. ♥

An Interview With Richard Armitage – Narrator of Classic Love Poems

   A nice and early Valentine's present from Richard Armitage and Audible.com
Richard is reading some of his favorite classic love poems in Classic Love Poems by William Shakespeare, Edgar Allen Poe and Elizabeth Barret Browning and lucky for us it is free at Amazon.com .
Wonderful way to relax and feel loved with Richard's warm voice washing over us when he is  reading to us.

                                                                                                                                                                                                               

Richard Armitage's 'Hannibal' Response

Richard has at last said something about 'Hannibal'. I don't understand it which leads me to think it is from either the novel Red Dragon or from the 'Hannibal' script. But at at least we have finally heard something from Richard on the subject.

  In my head I keep hearing "You see me now" as sounding like the cell phone commercial who famous line was "Can you here me now?". I think it was Sprint but don't hold me to it. Anyway, no matter how much I try to make Richard's quote sound different I can only here the commercial.

  As for the "Do you feel me now? " quote.... does not always take much of an imagination where Richard is concerned . Think Paul Andrews from ' In Between the Sheets'

Richard Armittage - Hannibal

  Richard is silent ass a lamb on Twitter about him being named as Francis Dolarhyde on the American television  show 'Hannibal'. It took some time for me to find out after reading Lady0akenshield's tweet about Twitter being in a meltdown with the news about Richard Armitage. I did not think to ask her what the heck she was talking about but that is when I went to Richard's Twitter page and nothing. Zilch. Nada. He is still being silent about the news.

  So I put it out of my mind and continued to look around a bit on Twitter. Little later I went over to Facebook and was doing my thing there when I saw Servetus post congratulating Richard on being cast in 'Hannibal'. I thought that maybe that another movie was being made of 'Hannibal' so I went to Servetus' blog me + richard armitage and found out that it IS the television series 'Hannibal. I read her post and found myself agreeing with her about this kind of show not being something I usually watch but I may be willing to give it a try for the six episodes that Richard is going to be in.

  I then went back to Twitter and looked up and found the 'Hannibal' Twitter page. There is the announcement of Richard Armitage being named to play Francis Dolarhyde. This led me to wonder who is Francis Dolarhyde. I searched the internet and found how vile, that is an understatement, he is. He is also known as the "Tooth Fairy" for his penchant for biting his victims, usually an entire family, while wearing custom made dentures after he kills them, especially the mother. After having gleaming over this character on Wikipedia I have come to the conclusion that, even though I may take the occasional peek, there is a high chance that I will not be watching 'Hannibal'.


  Don't get me wrong I am happy for Richard getting this part because it will give him better exposure to an audience that is either unfamiliar with his previous work or only know him as Thorin Oakenshield from 'The Hobbit' franchise. This is also an immense stretching of his acting wings. I may not be thrilled with the character but I am proud of Richard Armitage for jumping off the edge and taking on such a diabolical character.


So congratulations to Richard Armitage on getting a different and demanding role.

RA Calendar - January 2015

Something new fort his blog -  an RA Calendar. If you know about my Lady M of Gisborne blog then you know about my Calendar Guy post this is the same thing except I will use either pictures of Richard as himself or as any of his characters. Except for Sir Guy of Gisborne, he is strictly for my Lady M of Gisborne blog.

  Now with the introduction I give to you the inaugural post of the RA Calendar. photo is courtesy of Richard that he posted to Twitter wishing us a Happy New Year.