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Peter Jackson seen celebrating 92-year-old Sir Christopher Lee's last day of filming for "The Hobbit" as Saruman the White.
This man was a nazi hunter.
He met Tolkien himself.
A legend worth remembering.
TimeAndMemeLordOfGallifrey
KomodoKill
Favourite person ever
dicklover3001
Fuck i didn't know he was dead. Goddamn it man
iCantBelieveImNotLurking
The man has the Guinness record for being in the most movies. He's shown up in small parts in so many big name movies
SwordsToTheSkyWeRideAtDawn
James Bond is based on him guys.....
fskn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shz8OzPmHfw
ConsumingHate
So, I forgot for a moment that he had already passed away and started to freak out that he had just died. Been a rough two months for me.
removekarling
He shed the blood of the Saxon man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvKRbi2ovDY
TheAccursedHamster
God fucking dammit I miss Christopher Lee..
williamvanauger
he also voiced the Death of the disc
barbos007
And he was the man with the Golden Gun
DrMaggot
Rip Count Dooku
Branch68
i really hope that someone like Peter Jackson develops a love for Eragon like he does LOTR
Win1forthegifer
Had a bacon level higher than most even beating Kevin bacon
Primotimewaster
And he had said he read the book every year.
KeybladeTerra
Corey Burton lives on as Ansem the Wise, but you were the original
OhBoiOhBoiOhBoi
Piornet
James Bond is literally based off of him
wiggis
explain?
Piornet
Christopher Lee was a special forces operative in WWII. His mother was married to Ian Fleming's uncle, making them cousins. Ian Fleming
Piornet
of course wrote the James Bond series, and based it in no small part off of Christopher Lee. And now you know the rest of the story.
wiggis
Cool
RodTungsten
He also had a heavy metal Christmas album
T3sl4co1l
\m/
DangerDaveHiggins
Also a metal album based on Charlemagne
LapisScarab
I think he was also Ian Fleming's cousin or something so that's pretty neat.
CaptainPawfulFox
I didn't even know he was dead... wait, since 2015? Jesus...
nordicfatcheese
End? No the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The gray rain curtain of this world rolls back,
nordicfatcheese
and all turns to silver glass. And then you see it... White shores... and beyond. A far green country, under a swift sunrise.
gofuyose
PoopfaceMcGlagahan
Rookthebaggins
Austin369
Darthwaffler
MisterSausage
MrJBK99
Jackson looks like a deranged hobbit.
LapisScarab
He looks kinda like I'd imagine Peter Pettigrew would if he never turned to the dark side.
shhep
Shining Jack Nicholson, but hobbit.
MinorityRetort
Favorite story with him is when he told Peter Jackson (from personal exp) what getting stabbed in the back was really supposed to sound like
whynotnoharm
https://youtu.be/5TQARRckm6U
ThannBanis
Did he ever tell that story in an interview?
lordmeowdemort
He did! The man was in the British OSS. I think he wasn't an operator for them but still a bad ass nonetheless https://youtu.be/5TQARRckm6U
IdoNotKnowWhatMyNameIs
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whynotnoharm
https://youtu.be/5TQARRckm6U got your back.
Mulvers
My wife treated him in hospital just before he passed. He sang to her in Elvish. The man was a Legend to the End
KomodoKill
Omg
proletariatblues
If this is true it's remarkable
Mulvers
Very much true. I was so jealous when she told me. Casually dropped it into conversation when he died. Never thought of telling me before
z3lfmoord
The hell? I didn't know he died.
Aristotelm
It was the 7th of June 2015
z3lfmoord
KomodoKill
Dude
Thunderchief1
There's a guy works down the chip shop, swears he's elvish.
TheSkyChampion
terry pratchett?
Thunderchief1
Yep :)
TheSkyChampion
One of the best recent writers. First time i cried at a celebs death.
Thunderchief1
Yeah...he was pretty awesome.
knobhoblin
Good ol' Elvish Presley
CanadianOneDollarCoin
This did not get the recognition it deserves
WrongUn
Connery??
Yetsumari
No Gandalf was the part he would have gotten. He thought the script was too weird
knobhoblin
If you're shingle
GeneralBuzzkil
Tolkien said something along the lines of Christopher being the only actor he could think of who would be a good Gandalf.
RoutemasterFlash
Turns out he was a good bad Gandalf.
shhep
What? But Lee was only 50 when Tolkien died? You sure this info is legit? I can't even find the year Lee met with Tolkien, much less any
trashmouth
I read tighten wanted him to passer Gandalf
shhep
more specific detail.
EXECPHANTASMAGORIA
you didn't look then. google "lee tolkien" and the first couple of results are interviews with lee saying he saw tolkien in the pub
shhep
Did you click them? Those are not interviews, but buzzfeed-like fact lists.
grimmia
I think I remember reading about that and Lee beiny upset he wasn't Gandalf. Can't quite remember. I was like... 10?
lDanielHolm
Lee chose not to be Gandalf. He knew he wasn't capable of the physical requirements for the role.
Alkuam
IIRC there was a comment about Ian McKellen being a spry man in his 60's.
Nomados
He was bc he didn't want to do any more villains as he hates those roles. Funny how those are considered his greatest acting roles
Lischu
Maybe dislike towards villains translated into his acting where the character would be self-loathing.
Sticklebrickk
If you want to be a good villain, just pretend you are the hero.
Sheepyhead
He was the hero in The Howling 2: Your Sister is a Werewolf AKA Stirba: Werewolf Bitch
thexian
Didn't he also disslike that they made Saruman evil?
Nomados
Sort of. He wanted to stress that Saruman was misguided by power and thought the only way to defeat Sauron was through betrayal, not as evil
superthrust
Wait when did he die? How did I miss over this?
missmunster
2015 :(
TheOGPooner
Like 2yrs ago
superthrust
Damn..