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Rest in Peace Sir Christopher. Dracula, Scaramanga, Dooku, Saruman, Flay. What a resume.
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Wow. I remember Lee expressing concern that he wouldn't live long enough to see Lord of the Rings on the big screen all the way back in the early 00's. In fact he managed not only that, but starring in and viewing an entire sequel trilogy as well. He was a truly remarkable man, to the point that I almost feel unworthy to comment here.
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Farewell. He was more metal at 90+ than any young man I can think of. He'd even been Death, in Pratchett adaptations, and I always think of his voice when I read those caps.
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The very detailed obituary I read this morning had a couple of real surprises in it:

During World War II, Lee served in the Royal Air Force and Special Forces and spent one year in a hellacious winter campaign in Finland. He was said to be a spy but never wanted to talk about it, honoring an oath of secrecy.

“When the Second World War finished I was 23 and already I had seen enough horror to last me a lifetime,” he told the Telegraph in 2011. “I’d seen dreadful, dreadful things, without saying a word. So seeing horror depicted on film doesn’t affect me much.”

Music was important to him. He appeared in operas, sang “Name Your Poison” in The Return of Captain Invincible (1983) opposite Alan Arkin and was among the pack of “convicts” on the cover of Paul McCartney & Wings’ 1973 album Band on the Run.

In 2010, Lee recorded a symphonic heavy metal concept album, Charlemagne: By the Sword and the Cross (he said he was related to the emperor on his mother’s side). Three years later, he released a follow-up that had Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath on guitar.

“People never thought I would be a heavy metal performer. Well, I am,” he said in the 2012 interview.

Sure, he never was nominated for an Oscar, but he has a Metal Hammer Golden God Award

Lee, who had a library of 12,000 books on the occult, admitted to being fascinated by the nature of evil during a 2003 interview with the Guardian.
“Good’ people ... being persistently noble can become rather uninteresting,” he said. “There is a dark side in all of us. And for us 'bad’ people, the bad side dominates. I think there is a great sadness in villains, and I have tried to put that across. We cannot stop ourselves doing what we are doing.”


https://ca.movies.yahoo.com/news/christ ... 48580.html

What fascinating, multi-faceted man he was! :(
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He will be missed. Though to my eyes, the man is immortal.
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"Spirits in the shape of hawks and eagles flew ever to and from his halls; and their eyes could see to the depths of the seas, and pierce the hidden caverns beneath the world."
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Found this AWESOME clip of Lee doing the One Ring poem, in English and the Black Speech! What a magnificent voice he had, and what a shame this was never included in the films!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdhpA2yPu1w
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Voronwë the Faithful wrote:Lovely tribute from Peter Jackson: https://www.facebook.com/notes/peter-ja ... 6069616558
That is a very touching note from Peter.
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RIP Sir Lee. Here goes one of the men I have always looked up to...
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Happy Birthday, Christopher Lee!

This article on FB contains quite a few new nuggets of information about him, including a joke Roger Moore played on him during the filming of The Man With the Golden Gun!

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Just remember in the winter far beneath the bitter snows,
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That's so weird, I had forgotten about it but when I saw this I remembered that last night (well, just before I woke up) I was having a dream about Saruman and these two young - late teen/early twenty - kids going to find him calling him Uncle Saruman but they knew he had been corrupted and were trying to save him...
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