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Here is a little Article about Mr. Lee and LOTR:
One Actor, Two Decades of Reading.
Actor Christopher Lee, who will turn 80 in May, and who plays Saruman, the evil wizard, had read The Lord of the Rings each year for the last 20 years before he was hired to be in the production. "Christopher Lee was definitely the most knowledgeable about Tolkien," says Cooper. "He would go into Weta Workshop, knowing a lot of the artists and sculptors working there were fanatics about the books, and he would quiz them with trivia questions from the books and they wouldn't know the answer. He's so classic in his delivery, and has that amazing deep voice, and he'd say, 'Come on now....'"
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