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Why Could the Stranger Be Saruman? Ultimately, we don’t know who the Stranger is, aside from being an Istar, or a wizard. Five wizards came to Middle-earth, so the Stranger could be any of them. When ...

With a clear amount of love and emotion, Boyens explained more about how Christopher Lee came to be in The War of the Rohirrim, “What we did was we based it on his original records from his ADR ...

Many writers create and recreate characters over and over again across the course of their writing journey, making small tweaks and changes that result in a well rounded, fleshed out character in the ...

LOS ANGELES – In "The Fellowship of the Ring," Christopher Lee (search) appeared as the traitorous elder wizard Saruman (search), whose snowy white beard and robe hid his black-hearted intentions for ...

"Learned and powerful, Saruman devoted himself to studying the ways of his enemy, that he might therein devise a means of defeating him. To this end, he amassed within his tower a vast library of ...

History happens, it is transmitted from generation to generation, sometimes it is idealized, and at other times it becomes legend. As a story, Éowyn narrates the events of an ancient war waged by her ...

“When we reached out to Gitte, Lady Lee, who’s sadly no longer with us… she said the thing that I think Peter [Jackson] felt in his heart, which was that Sir Christopher would have wanted this,” ...

Based on one of J. R. R. Tolkien's letters, he would have approved of this key scene being excluded from the theatrical cut ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Sir Ian McKellen has issued a touching tribute to Christopher Lee, saying he was made tofeel "inadequate" by the late acting great while ...