Wendy writes: I thought I’d just confirm that Christopher Lee did indeed show up and, apparently, had yet another event lined up after that signing. Busy days. He didn’t seem too dejected but I didn’t hear anybody mention ROTK to him. I didn’t either because I hadn’t yet seen confirmation of the rumours at the time.
I just happened to be shopping in London when I saw a poster announcing that Christopher Lee was signing his autobiography at Borders today.
So I joined the small-ish queue, discovered that there was a much bigger queue upstairs once you had gone past the “overflow”, and spent my lunch time queuing and queuing some more.
It felt really strange seeing him and hearing him talk in front of me once I got close. He might be 81 years old but he doesn’t look it and his voice can put you under a charm, just like Saruman’s.
When it finally was my turn, I approached nervously, said Hello and a few words. My French accent must have been leaking through as he asked me where I was from. Once he knew it was from Belgium, he started chatting with me in perfect French about how he knew French well but couldn’t understand Walloon (a Belgian dialect). We chatted like that for a minute or so. I was a bit overwhelmed by it all so couldn’t quite find anything to answer.
The evil man must have had me under a spell. 😉
Anyway, I bid him a good day and went on my way.
Funny how a boring shopping trip can turn out very different from what you had planned. Now on to read his autobiography. From what I’ve read so far, Lee seems to look back at his life and career with a serious dose of humour and derision.
Apologies for writing all that to you but I just had to share the experience. This has made my day. 🙂
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Our friends over at Council of Elrond have this set of screencaps from the Towers EE. It’s a deleted scene involving Frodo, and also shows Elijah Wood getting made up for it. Credit for the screencaps goes to Ringer Teldil, but if you are easily disturbed by gruesome make-up, you may not want to look! !!!Spoilers!!! UPDATE – Calisuri here – Having seen the TTT EE, these pictures of Frodo dressed up in Gollum-mode did not make the TTT EE cut. These are shots from an even more extended sequence where Faramir confronts Frodo and Sam after discovering Frodo has The One Ring. They are supposed to be a ‘flash’ into the future. A chance for the audience to see what Frodo might become should he keep the Ring. [More]
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People who will attend Ring*Con 2003 in Bonn this weekend will get the chance to win two tickets to the worldpremiere for The Return of the King in Wellington, New Zealand! All visitors are included in a huge raffle sponsored by Air New Zealand. Don’t have a ticket for Ring*Con yet? No worries, they will sell them at the door. Look for more information on their website; www.RingCon.de!
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If you’re going for this contest [and there’s LOTS of categories you could enter under] be aware that the closing deadline is now November 30th. [More] Winners announced at December’s Gathering of the Fellowship
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So you did. If you’ve bought tickets to the Return of the Ringers party in Wellington and you’re a NZer, you’ll be wondering where the tickets are, because we promised to mail them out to you. They’re at the printers, so you can expect them next week. Meanwhile, we still have room for more people [heh heh, remember we got the big marquee? but bookings close soon.
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