{"id":27632,"date":"2001-02-27T03:03:47","date_gmt":"2001-02-27T09:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2001\/02\/27\/christopher-lee-talks-lotr-8\/"},"modified":"2008-06-01T17:50:18","modified_gmt":"2008-06-01T22:50:18","slug":"christopher-lee-talks-lotr-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2001\/02\/27\/27632-christopher-lee-talks-lotr-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Lee talks LOTR!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an interview he recently held with the English newspaper The Guardian<\/em> Christopher Lee (Saruman) briefly mentions Lord of the Rings…<\/p>\n

“..Lee is not at liberty to say much about The Lord of the Rings, a three-film adaptation of the Tolkein trilogy; but since he has read the books every year since they were published (1954-55), playing the character of Saruman is the realisation of a long-held ambition. “The book is such a work of brilliance and majesty – Tolkein wrote an epic on the scale of The Iliad or The Odyssey. He even created a language, Elfish, which you can read, write and speak. Despite having seen absolutely nothing of the film, I still think it’s going to create cinema history. Peter Jackson’s instincts are extraordinary, as is his stamina. My God, it would have to be, to film solidly for 15 months.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The full story can be found at Guardian Unlimited<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In an interview he recently held with the English newspaper The Guardian Christopher Lee (Saruman) briefly mentions Lord…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[42,10,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lee","category-lotr-cast-news","category-old-special-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t