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Gosh, I saw it more than one time, and I keep wanting more of it. Ever since then, I read it at least once or twice a year - therefore you can count me as a fan, for I follow the same cult fan procedure with 'The Hobbit' and 'The Silmarillion' as well. For the record, I'm 25 years old, and I've read 'The Lord of the Rings' in three times for the first time when I was six or seven years old. Jackson added that Lee grew just as invested in playing the trilogy’s main villain as he had been about playing Gandalf, and that 'he would always feel the need to say, 'You must understand, Peter, he’s really not an evil man.''ĭespite his menacing presence in the films, Jackson’s account of the time he spent with Lee on set was very cordial.but oh was I thankful for it!!! All through the movie I kept on having this big large smile sculpted into my face. Jackson said that “Chris wasn’t hearing a bar of it, and eventually commanded us to turn on the video camera so he could audition for Gandalf,” but he eventually settled for playing a different character.

Lee had taken the meeting because he had the impression that he was going to be cast as Gandalf, a role that eventually went to Sir Ian McKellen. However, the initial meeting between Jackson and Lee did not go quite as planned. As an avid fan of the novels, Lee said that “the scene is one of the most important scenes in the whole trilogy, because it’s Saruman, the great mortal enemy, the most evil of them all, against the Fellowship.” He said that when the film was first screened to him “nobody understood it,” and that questions about Saruman’s absence received “millions of hits on the internet, not just from Tolkien fans and film fans, but from everybody who had seen the first two.” This was a change that Lee felt fundamentally changed the text, and felt personally insulted that Jackson would remove it. While readers of the novel knew that the manipulative Wizard is killed by his once loyal ally, Wormtongue actor ( Brad Dourif), fans who weren’t familiar with the source material were left in the dark as to what became of the character. Fans who had seen The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towerswere left with knowledge of the character’s fate Saruman’s Tower of Isengard had been mercilessly attacked by the Ents at the end of the film, as Merry ( Dominic Monaghan) and Pippin ( Billy Boyd) had finally convinced the noble Treebeard ( John Rhys Davies) to lead an attack on the Orcs.

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