Um, hi, I'm Danielle, and I need a bit of help. If I am not allowed to post this, feel free to delete. I really, really want to do a Lyra/Will fanart piece, and I was wondering if anyone knows, if it is mentioned in the books, what colour eyes the two have? I was going to give Lyra brown eyes but I don't know about Will, and I didn't want to make a huge mistake and colour it completely wrong. Also, I'm going to do Will's hair black like his eyebrows - am I making any mistakes?

Thank you,
Danielle.

Not sure if anyone is interested in them, but I'm selling a bunch of the trading cards from the movie in my journal: http://entelexia.livejournal.com/539480.html

I picked up a TON of duplicates while trying to get the set, so they're pretty cheap. There's some other items available, as well, so please take a look!

Only two more here.

"WITCHES IN POPULAR FICTION"

Here is a GALLERY featuring witches in popular fiction.

i'm trying to get this multi-fandom friending meme out to all corners of lj, and i think the silent hdm group needs a little action! this fandom needs life!



apologies to those who are seeing this all over the place. ♥

(mods, feel free to delete if this is unwanted!)

I am pleased to announce this community's affiliation with cloudedmountain, a new HDM community that will be hosting weekly discussions on themes in the series. The community also welcomes fanworks (art, fics, etc.) and monthly drabble contests.

So join up and spread the HDM love!

Yay!

I finished re-re-re-reading His Dark Materials yesterday, twice in Finnish, twice in English. (Once when I was reading my boyfriend looked at me really funnily and asked "Are you reading it for the second time?" and I answered "Well... Actually the fourth." He has also read HDM, thanks to me, but he's not the reading type and I guess he doesn't understand how some books can mean the world to the person who loves them)

I started the Golden Compass for over a year ago, so as you can see I haven't been hurrying too much. As I know what's going to happen in the three books, I can read them slowly and whenever I feel like it. Sometimes I used to read them as a bedtime story, sometimes when I had nothing else to read and sometimes when I just wanted to spend some time with Lyra and Will or whoever starring the book at the moment. But everything good has to end sometime, and now I think I should wait at least a year before I start it again.




I've been thinking of bying hardcover British versions of these all, also I should by Lyra's Oxford and Once Upon a Time in the North. I've got only the Finnish translation (hardcover, which I'm never going to read again because the translation sucks big time) and US version (paperback), but I want the UK hardcover where's Pullman's illustrations in the beginnings of the chapters, and the Golden Compass is the Northern Lights as it should be. Also I want them separately, and I don't want any movie covers. Huugh I'm so demanding! I'm quite a fanatic, I guess. I found something promising from amazon.com.uk, but I have to think about it a bit more. And it's going to cost a few pennies, but I think it'll be worth it.

This entry is also in my journal.

I pre-ordered the book and finished it in a few hours on Tuesday. It's not surprising considering it is a very compact book (I haven't read Lyra's Oxford yet so I didn't expect the book to be the size it was) but it was so engrossing I probably would have stayed up to finish it. I had planned to write about it Wednesday but I got sick. I'm proud Once Upon a Time in the North was manufactured in Malaysia. :D It's a beautifully made book and I do think if I had a choice between a paperback version or the hardcover version, I would still choose the hardcover one, though it would be more expensive. There's also a boardgame included, where aeronauts compete to be the last remaining one in the sky. I haven't played it yet (they say the minimum is four players) as I and my friends have been too busy, but some of the "Hazards" are pretty amusing.



I really adored this book and I'm glad Pullman wrote it. I hope he writes one for Serafina one day.

Cross-posted tohdarkmaterials, hisdarkmatter and personal LJ.

http://community.livejournal.com/hdm_stamping

This isn't my community but there's a serious lack of members and we could really use more people over here. Come and find out whether you're Mrs. Coulter, Lyra, Iorek, Serafina or whoever.

And vote too---we all need them.

The GOLDEN COMPASS just won the 2008 BAFTA Visual Effects award. Who would have thunk?

I finished the series about a week ago after seeing the movie (well, and I got Golden Compass for Christmas) and couldn't read it fast enough because I just wanted to know the ending :D

( I have some thoughts on the ending of the third book that I couldn't help )

( And a request of sorts that may be considered spoilery )

Hope to enjoy this community a lot, since I did enjoy the books a lot, and sorry for my wordiness...it happens :x

Film: The Golden Compass
Number: 192
Size: 640x272 px


More samples and download link @ my journal.

After watching the movie, I was left feeling like they'd delivered a great beginning, a great middle, and completely forgot to put in an ending. I saw it at a theater at the mall and so afterwards I went straight from the theater to Waldenbooks and bought a boxed set of the entire trilogy.

( Spoilers for The Golden Compass novel )

That said, I really do hope they come out with the second and third movies to complete the series. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure they'll pale in comparison to the books, but I'd like to see the trilogy completed on the silver screen as well. A shame that it didn't do well domestically... I feel quite confident in saying that it's a far more interesting series than Harry Potter!

Jordan College The Rules and Application

Twenty years before the events of The Golden Compass, travelers from every world imaginable are gathering in Asriel's Oxford and under the northern lights of Bolvangar. Rips and tears in the fabric of the multiverse lead them to the world of Lord Asriel, where they are whisked away to Oxford or the frozen North by Asriel's men for purposes unknown. Humans- or at least beings who can pass for human- are taken to Jordan College to assist Asriel's more scholarly efforts. Those different enough to raise eyebrows and attract the all-seeing eye of the Church, however, are shipped to Norroway, among the panserbjørne and witches of the far north.

( Additional info under the cut )

The following question isn't really a spoiler but the answers will probably be, so caution to those who haven't read the 3rd book.

( Read more... )

Hey HDM fans!

I just wanted you guys to know that Borders (and Borders only) is carrying a book specifically about the HDM trilogy. It's a collection of essays that discuss Phillip Pullman and his novels. This book was actually released just in time for the movie, so after you finish reading the books and have seen the movie, you'll want to check out the book. It's edited by Scott Westerfeld (of the Uglies) and has essays by well-known writers like Deb Caletti, Ned Vizzini, and Ellen Hopkins.

You can reserve a copy at your local Borders here:
Borders

I made a Golden Compass fanvid. It's a parody of Moulin Rouge, and it fits so well it's scary. I hope some of you enjoy it. :)

Song: El Tango de Roxanne
Cast: Iorek=Christian
          Lyra=Roxanne
          Asriel=Count Creepy-as-Hell

La Boussole Rouge