The Hobbit

Richard Armitage Does Richard–at last!

Aug 20, 2023

anniversaries, films

Guy of Gisborne, Leicester, publications, Radio Times, Richard Armitage, Richard III, Robin Hood, The Hobbit, Thorin Oakenshield

Richard Armitage, the actor best known for his roles as Guy of Gisburne in BBC’s Robin Hood (the only good thing about it IMO) and the dwarf leader Thorin Oakenshield in Peter Jackson’s version of The Hobbit, has always had a special affinity with King Richard III. He was born in Leicester, the place of…
The jeweller who made Richard’s funeral crown….

Sep 20, 2020

archaeology, art, genealogy, religion, Science

Beowulf, films, funeral crown, George Easton, John Ashdown-Hill, Richard III, The Crown, The Hobbit

This article is about George Easton, the jeweller who created Richard III’s crown (see above) for the funeral and reinterment at Leicester. And he did so with the assistance of John Ashdown-Hill, although John’s name isn’t mentioned. George’s business is called Danegeld: “….A land tax in Anglo-Saxon England might not sound the most glamorous starting…
Elijah’s Frodo or Aneurin’s Richard III….?

May 17, 2018

battles, The play’s the thing

Aneurin Barnard, Battle of Bosworth, Elijah Wood, films, Richard III, The Hobbit

I have recently watched the Fellowship of the Ring series. I confess to watching these films, and The Hobbit, over and over. Yet again, when Elijah’s Wood’s Frodo Baggins was on the screen, I was curiously reminded of Aneurin Barnard’s Richard III. OK, not when Frodo’s eyebrows were on some kind of weird warpath, like…

The Hobbit

Richard Armitage Does Richard–at last!

The jeweller who made Richard’s funeral crown….

Elijah’s Frodo or Aneurin’s Richard III….?