Portrait of a King

There has been a call for artists to submit possible official portraits of Willem Alexander, 12 were shortlisted and 3 were eventually chosen. Among them a photo of some other guy who's being a stand in for the King.

People can judge by themselves at the Rijkmuseum, where all the submission are on view till April, together with countless other portraits of Dutch Kings and Queens of the past.

https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/een-nieuwe-koning-een-nieuw-portret

Not one of the submission. Also, copyrighted.

The Lord of the Ring ... hood

Just found this out on "How to Dutch": in North Brabant's Geldrop where the streets of a whole neighborhood are called after characters from Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.

It looks like a fairly new development, but I couldn't find anywhere any explanation on why the town administrators decided to call the roads  like this. I just guess that someone at the planning department is a big Tolkien's fan.

So people can live on Gandalf, Frodo, Saruman and of course, Aragorn. 

Personally, I wouldn't mind living on Legolas.

http://tolkien-inspiration.blogspot.nl/2012/03/geldrop-curious-way-of-tribute.html