The Orlando Community

All riiiiight...

This journal hasn't been updated since Orlando was born, it's so old. One of my great dreams is tat this could be a vibrant, healthy, living community!

That's why I'm going to give every 50th person who comments here a secret, surprise prize. It can be anything they want... all they have to do is comment.

The only rule is that your comment must be Orlando-related. Here, you can worship him, drool over him, write snippets of fanfiction about him, reccomend books, films etc to other Orlando fans, or even complain about him.

All that you need to do is comment.

Ready...

Set...

Go.

 

Well, I'm back. God... This community hasn't changed since early last year. Luckily, I've some news: 

Virginia Woolf's Orlando (spliced with the medieval hero Roland, also known as Orlando. Honestly) appears in Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier. (So far, he - or she - has appeared in volume two and is coming back in the next volume, Century). The good news? It's full of fun facts (pardon the alliteration). Here are a few:

• His lovers include Sindbad, Hsi Wang Mu, Mina Harker and Merlin;
• He's quite bloodthirsty, and has fought at Troy and in both World Wars;
• He was turned into a cat (referencing another Orlando, this one being a Marmalade Cat); and
• He, or she, inherited his sex-swapping ability from his father, Tiresias (who also had another child, Manto);

I even have a picture of him, which is here (warning: here be nudity)!

Anyway, are the any other Orlando fans?

Love,

Rolando8

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There's a LoEG RPG that needs some more members! It needs a Professor Challenger, an Allan Quatermain and a Mina Murray. Here it is. 
In that RPG, I play Orlando!

Orlando is my favourite character from The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. I have a fixation on Orlando, and wish to find out more about him/her. I also wish to play him/her in RPG's.

Can't believe it's taken me so long to find this community,I've been a member of the Tilda Is Love journal for quite a while! Anyway,Orlando,which I think will always be Tilda's defining role, has been one of my favourite films for many years,there's just something about it that I can't quite put my finger on. I don't know anyone else who likes it,if they have seen it at all. It's just so unique,like no other film,and I notice new things and appreciate more and more each time I watch it.

I read the book a few months ago,totally fascinating,it was like the film and also not like the film,the film did a good job of simplifying everything while keeping the tone and themes. I'm not sure I understood everything in the book,such as the ending,but it so seemed so refreshing and original,I'll read it again in a while and will read more Virginia Woolf {loved The Hours film too}.

Anyway,it's great to find there are other fans of Orlando around!

Hello everyone,
After having read Mrs Dalloway a year ago (which was such a strong love/hate relationship that it took me a while to reattempt another of Woolf's works!) I recently convinced myself to read 'Orlando'. Like 'Mrs Dalloway' it was a love/hate thing (but mostly love!). I really hope that during the course of my university years (I start this September) I get to study her works, as I think (from the little I know) that they are novels that, in order to be fully appreciated, need to be discussed and thought about.
I was wondering if anyone knew/had any theories about what the goose at the end of 'Orlando' symbolises?
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It's probably really obvious and I'm just being lazy, but I don't have time right now to reread it myself :( I read the footnotes which say how after some research the editor and her research buddies found a paper that "revealed quite unambiguously the meaning of the wild goose" but she then goes on NOT to say it XD
I was also wondering what the main overarching themes are in Virginia Woolf's works (identity? gender? etc, if any), and lastly, what more of her works (excepting the two I have already read) would you recommend to me?
Thank you x

It's been a while since anyone posted anything on here, so I thought I'd share a few random thoughts on the subject of our favourite omnisexual immortal.

I've noticed a few subtle parallels between the book and the 1992 movie which you might find interesting:

- In the book, when Orlando gets 'The Oak Tree' published, it is because she has given it to Nicholas Greene and he has organised the publication. In the movie, when she takes her novel to a publisher, the publisher (although possibly a different character entirely) is played by Heathcote Williams who also plays Nicholas Greene in the earlier scenes.

- Although the part of the story where Archduke Harry masquerades as the Archduchess Harriet in order to obtain the male Orlando's affections (I don't think that would have worked in a film), the idea that he is enamoured of Orlando is kept. The first time Harry enters to find Orlando in the sauna it is obvious that he is rather taken with the young lord. It is the same in the investiture scene.

- A few of the servants at Orlando's house, and some other characters, remain the same, or are played by the same actors, over a few hundred years. S/he isn't the only immortal about then.

There's also an interesting way that the film links in to "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen". In the second volume of the comic, references are made to Orlando being a member of several of the "Leagues" over the centuries, and pictures of him/her seem to be based on Tilda's appearance in the film. Alan Moore has said that he plans to explore some of the past "Leagues", one of which worked in the Elizabethan Era. This issue would feature Elizabeth I as the 'Gloriana' of Spenser's "The Faerie Queene". What I find interesting is that in the Orlando movie, Elizabeth turns to Orlando and says "Do not fade. Do not wither. Do not grow old", and he doesn't, which sort of reinforces that whole "Faerie Queene" idea.


The "League" version of Orlando

Please, let me know if any of that actually made sense. heh.

On a side note, at work the other day I had a phonecall from an elderly woman who at one point said to me "Don't ever grow old, stay the age you are". I half hoped that it would work for me the same way that it worked for Orlando.

Is it just me or has anyone else experienced Orlando phobia from friends family and strange strangers?

thank you orlando!

I will explain later, but if I talk too much right now, the CIA will be after me...

aha! I now may explain myself...
I had to take the AP lit test and I was dreading the free response essay. This book ended up being on the list, and because I read it for myself outside of class, I could actually write on it. I couldn't remember a thing from The Great Gatsby which was read in class, and would have been an equally good choice for writing material.
So once again my day was saved thanks to Mrs. Woolf's strangest novel and my extreem nerdiness.

WANT!