{"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":"<p class=\"intro\">In an interview he recently held with the English newspaper <em>The Guardian<\/em> Christopher Lee (Saruman) briefly mentions Lord of the Rings&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;..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. &#8220;The book is such a work of brilliance and majesty &#8211; 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&#8217;s going to create cinema history. Peter Jackson&#8217;s instincts are extraordinary, as is his stamina. My God, it would have to be, to film solidly for 15 months.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The full story can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/Archive\/Article\/0,4273,4141030,00.html\" target=\"new\"><em>Guardian Unlimited<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview he recently held with the English newspaper The Guardian Christopher Lee (Saruman) briefly mentions Lord&#8230;<\/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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"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":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-7bG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}