garboing:

I have grown up in a great man’s shadow. All my life, I’ve been a symbol. A symbol is eternal, changeless… an abstraction. A human being is mortal and changeable, with desires and impulses, hopes and despairs. I’m tired of being a symbol, Chancellor. I long to be a human being! This longing I cannot suppress.

Queen Christina, 1933 | Rouben Mamoulian.

May I suggest Omar Sharif as Oberyn Martell

Hi anon 🙂 That’s actually a great idea, Omar (rip ç_ç) would be great and I don’t have anyone for Oberyn yet, so why not? If I’m not mistaken he started working in Hollywood in the 60′s, which barely qualifies as old hollywood the way it’s usually defined around here, but I could make an exception 🙂 (still looking for a good fit for Arianne, suggestions welcome) 

scotianostra:

Tantallon Castle from Seacliff Harbour at the Gegan

Tantallon Castle was the imposing medieval stronghold of the influential Douglas Earls of Angus for around three centuries.

Built in the fourteenth century by the first such earl, William Douglas, and later updated to deal with more modern warfare, Tantallon Castle would survive numerous sieges before being utterly devastated by the army of Oliver Cromwell in 1651.